{"product_id":"2940158099991","title":"ANDROCLES AND THE LION - An Old European Folk Tale","description":"ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn issue 121 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the the old European tale of Androcles and the Lion. Andorcles, a slave, escapes servitude and hides out in the forest. One night whn sleeping in a cave, a lion enters and instead of eating him, offers him a bloodied and swollen paw. Androcles removes a thorn from the lion's paw and what happens next is beyond belief............ Download and read the story of Androcles and lion.\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, on map. HINT - 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 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, are 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":47168080281840,"sku":"2940158099991","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158099991_p0.jpg?v=1764114161","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158099991","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}