BLUEBEARD - A Classic Children’s Story: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 160

By Anon E Mouse

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 160
In this 160th story in the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the French children’s favourite Bluebeard. The tale tells the story of a violent nobleman who has been married several times to women who have all mysteriously vanished. When Bluebeard visits his neighbour and asks to marry one of his daughters, the girls are terrified. After hosting a wonderful banquet, the youngest is persuaded to marry him, and she goes to live with him and her sister Anne in his rich and luxurious home. And this is only the beginning of the story .....……. Download and read this story to find out what happens when Bluebeard returns from a trip only to find his wife had broken a solemn promise.

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
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Abela Publishing
• Release date: Apr 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9788826079974

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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