AURORE DUPIN AT PLAY - A True French Children's Story: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 210

By Anon E. Mouse

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 210
In this 210th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the French story of “Aurore Dupin at Play.” This is a true story about a young girl growing up in France during the Napoleonic wars.

This story is about Aurore Dupin, in her last years at her grandmother's château of Nohant near the town of Bourges. As a teenager she was sent to the Couvent des Anglaises (Convent of the English) to further her education. Here she learns English and how to drink tea, which was almost unheard of in France at the time.

We also read about how Aurore makes friends with other like-minded girls and the adventures and escapades they get up to exploring the 100 year-old convent founded by English nuns in Paris in the mid-1600’s. Will they be able to reveal the Legend of the Concealed Prisoner? and just where does the Stairway to Nowhere go? What did they find when they mistakenly discovered an entrance to Paris’ catacombs under the convent?

You are invited to download and read the story of the further adventures of the irrepressible Aurore Dupin and her new school friends.

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. 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: May 4, 2017
• ISBN: 9788826085128

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AURORE DUPIN AT PLAY

A French Tale

Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

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Abela Publishing, London

2016

AURORE DUPIN AT PLAY

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2016

Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

ISSN 2397-9607

Issue 210

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An Introduction to Baba Indaba

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