HOW FRECKLE THE FROG MADE HERSELF PRETTY - A Children's Tale about Vanity: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 468

By Anon E. Mouse

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 468
In this 468th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the children’s story of "How Freckle Frog Made Herself Pretty" a children's story about vanity.

Freckle was a frog who lived under the big rock. She was ugly, as all frogs are, but she loved pretty things. One day she saw a little girl, called Marian, and she had a doll called Big Mary. Both were prettily dressed in fine clothes. Freckle would sit under her rock and watch Marian play with big Mary in the garden, and she would sigh.

Then Freckle decided that she too wanted to be pretty and wear fine clothes. But just where would a frog find fine clothes…..?
What happened next? Did Freckle manage to finds fine clothes and did she manage to make herself look pretty? To find the answers to these questions, and others you may have, you will have to download and read this story to find out!

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The Baba Indaba Children's Stories, published by Abela Publishing, uses folklore and fairy tales which have their origins mists of time. Afterall who knows who wrote the original story of Cinderella, also known in other cultures as The Little Glass Slipper, or Cenerentola (Italian), Cendrillon, ou La petite Pantoufle de Verre (French), Aschenputtel (German), Tattercoats and Cap o’ Rushes (English), or Conkiajgharuna (Georgian). There is still debate as to whether the story originated in ancient Egypt or China. So who wrote the original? The answer is simple. No-one knows, or will ever know, so to assume that anyone owns the rights to these stories is nothing but nonsense. Quite often we use the Author name "Anon E. Mouse" which, of course, is a play on the word "Anonymous".

• Language: English
• Publisher: Abela Publishing
• Release date: Mar 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9788835380238

Book preview

How Freckle the Frog

Made Herself Pretty

By

Charlotte B. Herr

Narrated by

Baba Indaba

Illustrations By

Frances Beem

Originally Published By

P. F. Volland & Co., Chicago

[1913]

Resurrected by

Abela Publishing, London

[2020]

Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

How Freckle The Frog made Herself Pretty

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2020

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