{"product_id":"2940158357572","title":"THE SPARROW WITH THE SLIT TONGUE - A Japanese Folk Tale","description":"ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn issue 110 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Japanese tale of THE SPARROW WITH THE SLIT TONGUE. A poor farmer rescues a sparrow and tenderly cares for it. His cantankerous wife is jealous and releases the sparrow. Heartbroken, the farmer searches the forests in vain, until one day......... Download and read this story to find out what happened to the farmer, his wife and the sparrow.\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":47115513725168,"sku":"2940158357572","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158357572_p0.jpg?v=1764121531","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158357572","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}