THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER - A Classic Children’s Story:: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 156

By Anon E Mouse

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 156
In this 155th story in the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the perennial fairy tale about The Little Glass Slipper also known as the tale of Cinderella. Cinderella’s father marries again after his first wife dies. Cinderella is treated badly and lives in the kitchen and is forced to do all the housework. Never seen, she is not invited to the Prince’s ball, not until her Fairy Godmother visits and things begin to change..……. Download and read this story to find out what happened after Cinderall’s Fairy Godmother called on the night of the ball.

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: 9788826080000

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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