{"product_id":"2940158090677","title":"EMELYAN THE FOOL - A Russian Fairy Tale","description":"ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this 180th issue of the Baba Indaba's Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Russian story of \"Emelyan the Fool\". A peasant, who had three sons, two of whom were clever, but the third, Emelyan, was a fool. In time the peasant died leaving precious little as an inheritance. The two elder brothers decided to manage the meagre amount and go to the city to try and increase their wealth leaving Emelyan to look after their wives and the farmstead. One day Emelyan cuts a hole in the frozen river and catches a pike. The pike asks Emelyan what he is going to do with him. Why take him home to cook and eat. The pike convinces Emelyan that he has magical powers and that if Emelyan returns him to the river he will grant him every wish he asks for..................... Download and read this story to find out just what happens to Emelyan? Was the pike really magical or did he take Emelyan for the fool he really was?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach 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. \u003cbr\u003eHINT - use Google maps.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as \"Father of Stories\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is believed that folklore and tales are believed to have originated in India and made their way overland along the Silk and Spice routes and through the Middle East and Central Asia before arriving in Europe. Even so, this does not cover all folklore from all four corners of the world. Indeed folklore, legends and myths from Africa, Australia, Polynesia, and some from Asia too, can be altogether quite different and seem to have originated on the whole from separate reservoirs of lore, legend and culture.","brand":"Abela Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084336414960,"sku":"2940158090677","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158090677_p0.jpg?v=1764109476","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158090677","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}