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    BEOWULF - The Classic Norse Legend rewritten for Children: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - issue 132
    BEOWULF - The Classic Norse Legend rewritten for Children: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - issue 132
    BEOWULF - The Classic Norse Legend rewritten for Children: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - issue 132
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    BEOWULF - The Classic Norse Legend rewritten for Children: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - issue 132

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    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 132
    In this 132nd bedtime story from Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the classic tale of Beowulf, shortened and rewritten for children.

    Beowulf, is large and strong for his age. He is considered lazy and a laggard. Realising this he accepts the challenge to take on the monster Grendell in far away Geatsland to prove his worth. What happened to Beowulf when he was so far from home? Does Beowulf achieves his goals and did all come right in the end. Download and read a tale of bravery and courage, of looking evil in the eye, and overcoming enormous challenges. A great story to teach children that it’s natural to feel afraid and it’s what they do next that counts.

    Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. “Baba Indaba” translates as "Father of Stories".

    Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story, on map. HINT - use Google maps.

    33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
    INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateApr 25, 2017
    ISBN9788826078854
    BEOWULF - The Classic Norse Legend rewritten for Children: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - issue 132

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      BEOWULF - The Classic Norse Legend rewritten for Children - Anon E Mouse

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      Introduction

      Baba Indaba, pronounced Baaba Indaaba, lived in Africa a long-long time ago. Indeed, this story was first told by Baba Indaba to the British settlers over 250 years ago in a place on the South East Coast of Africa called Zululand, which is now in a country now called South Africa.

      In turn the British settlers wrote these stories down and they were brought back to England on sailing ships. From England they were in turn spread to all corners of the old British Empire, and then to the world.

      In olden times the Zulu’s did not have computers, or iPhones, or paper, or even pens and pencils. So, someone was assigned to be the Wenxoxi Indaba (Wensosi Indaaba) – the Storyteller. It was his, or her, job to memorise all the tribe’s history, stories and folklore, which had been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. So, from the time he was a young boy, Baba Indaba had been apprenticed to the tribe’s Wenxoxi Indaba to learn the stories. Every day the Wenxoxi Indaba would narrate the stories and Baba Indaba would have to recite the story back to the Wenxoxi Indaba, word for word. In this manner he learned the stories of the Zulu nation.

      In time the Wenxoxi Indaba grew old and when he could no longer see or hear, Baba Indaba became the next in a long line of Wenxoxi Indabas. So fond were

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