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Anon E. Mouse, Retold by Florence Holbrook

This illustrated volume contains two Viking, or Norse, sagas rewritten especially for older children and young adults presented in an easy-to-read novella format. Herein are the stories of Frithiof and the epic Beowulf. These stories are from a time when men were knighted for achieving great feats, and great their feats were. A time when the successful application of brain and brawn gained a man a high standing in his community and possibly even higher office in the land.The first ...

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Anon E. Mouse, Narrated by Baba Indaba

Book 451 -

Baba Indaba Children's Stories

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 451In this 451st issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Eastern Fairy Tale of “The Adventures Of Haroun-Al-Raschid, Caliph Of Bagdad.”A long, long time ago and far, far away, in an ancient Mesopotamia, the Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid sat in his palace, wondering if there was anything left in the world that could possibly give him a few hours’ amusement, when Giafar the grand-vizir, his old ...

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Anon E. Mouse, Illustrated by H. J. Ford, Compiled and Retold by Andrew Lang

Herein are 63 illustrated true stories about animals which every child will enjoy! In this book you will find stories about bears, otters, eagles, horses, dogs, dolphins, ants, frogs, elephants, parrots, snakes, lions, Cayman, weasels and many, many more besides."The Animal Story Book" will delight both old and young, as one may find therein pen-portraits of most of the remarkable animals that have interested the world since primitive times.Herein are stori...

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Anon E. Mouse, Narrated by Baba Indaba

Book 414 -

Baba Indaba Children's Stories

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 414In this 414th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Japanese creation myth - "THE PERIOD OF THE GODS”.At the dawn of time, in a period when Heaven and Earth were not yet separated, and the In and Yo (Yin and Yang) not yet divided, the deities Izanagi and Izanami stood on the Floating Bridge of Heaven and looked down into the abyss. They inquired of each other if there were a country f...

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Anon E. Mouse, Narrated by Baba Indaba

Book 443 -

Baba Indaba Children's Stories

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 443In this 443rd issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates two Tibetan Fairy Tales.The first is “The Man and the Ghost” and the second “How The Rabbit Killed The Lion."In our first tale we read of a man walking along a remote mountain path when he met a ghost. Despite his fear of the ghost he did not show and presently they journeyed on together conversing and learning more about each oth...

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Anon E. Mouse, Translated and Retold by Joseph Baudis

HEREIN you will find 23 Czech tales like THE TWELVE MONTHS, BOOTS, CLOAK, AND RING, SILLY JURA, SLEEPY JOHN, KOJATA, THE ENCHANTED PRINCESSES, NINE AT A BLOW and many more. Some of which are the Czech equivalent of perennial favourites and others will seem to be completely new and previously unread.THIS collection of 23 Czech folk tales is intended to exemplify the richness of spirit of the Czech race. While it may be argued that folk-tales are part of a common stock belonging to a...

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Anon E. Mouse, Compiled by Dr. Ignacz Kunos, Illustrated by Willy Pogany

Book 439 -

Andrew Lang's Many Coloured Fairy Books

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 439In this 439th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Turkish Fairy Tale – “Mahomet the Bald”In Turkish Fairy Tales, you will find various kinds of magic, such as talking animals, flying horses, birds that magically change into beautiful maidens, quests to win the hand of a princess, magical objects, simple, yet brave, peasants, wizards, witches, dragons and dungeons, epic journeys, and ...

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Anon E. Mouse, TRANSLATED and RETOLD by MADAME ELODIE L. MIJATOVICH

Herein are 26 folk and fairy tales from the Central European nation of Serbia.IT is only within the last few years that folklore and fairy tales have been dramatised and turned into film for television and the silver screen. Here the popular legends, tales, drolls, and extravagances, which have been handed down from generation to generation among the labourers, peasants and youth of a nation, are being given a new breath of life, and a lot of them originate from Central Europe....

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Anon E. Mouse, Translated by George Webbe Dasent, Illustrated by C. E. ST. JOHN-MILDMAY

THE EVENTS described in the saga of Gisli the Soursop reach from about the year AD930 to AD980, in a time when the law of Iceland had not yet been established. Men were ruled by their conscience and Gisli, a champion of Iceland, was outlawed for murder by the Chieftain Bork at the Thorsness Thing, or Council Meeting.But besides his sentence he was doomed, even before his birth. He and his kin were under a curse, for they had kept the broken bits of "Graysteel", bit...

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Anon E. Mouse, Compiled by James A. Honey

In this volume you will find forty-four uniquely South African tales. Stories of The Lost Message, The Monkey's Fiddle, The Leopard, The Ram and the Jackal, The Lion the Jackal and the Man, Tink-Tinkje, The Lioness and the Ostrich, Crocodile's Treason, The White Man and Snake, Tortoise Hunting Ostriches, The Judgment Of Baboon, When Lion Could Fly, The Origin Of Death and many more.It is with great thanks to James A. Honey that this volume was ever compiled. For there are few volume...

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Anon E Mouse, Narrated by Baba Indaba

Book 67 -

Baba Indaba Children's Stories

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 67In Issue 67 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Native American Creation Legend about the time Manabozho made the land. Manabozho was out hunting with two wolves. One left him and chose his own path while the other stayed to hunt with Manabozho. What happened to bring about the legend you ask? Well you’ll just have to download and read the story to find out!Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children'...

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Anon E Mouse

Book 154 -

Baba Indaba Children's Stories

ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 154In this 154th story in the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Serbian fairy tale about The Tale of Three Wonderful Beggars. Mark the Rich could not stand being around poor people. One evening three beggars knock on his door and ask for some food and shelter. He drives them off but his daughter convinces him to allow them to stay. But these are not ordinary beggars! They are overheard talking amongst themselves about the peasant...