{"product_id":"2940158414800","title":"A TALE OF TONTLAWALD - An Estonian Fairy Tale","description":"ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Issue 88 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Estonian tale of Tontlawald (Tontla Forest or Tontla Woods.) The story goes thus, a peasant had remarried, and he and his new wife quarreled, and she abused her stepdaughter Elsa. One day, the children were gathering strawberries when a boy realised they had wandered in to Tontlawald; the rest ran off, but Elsa did not think the woods could be worse than her stepmother. She met a little black dog with a silver collar, and a maiden dressed in silk who asked her to stay and be her friend..... Download and read the stories to find out just what happened after that. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINCLUDES LINKS TO 8 FREE STORIES TO DOWNLOADS\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":47076743905520,"sku":"2940158414800","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158414800_p0.jpg?v=1764112264","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158414800","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}