{"product_id":"2940158473975","title":"DAME PRIDGETT AND THE FAIRIES - An English Fairy Tale","description":"ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Issue 93 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the English Fairy Tale of Dame Pridgett who is a fat, comfortable, good-natured old body, and her business in life was to go about nursing sick folk and making them well again. \u003cbr\u003eOne day she was sitting by her window, rocking herself and resting after a hard week of nursing and there she saw a queer-looking little man come riding along the road on a great fiery, prancing black horse. He rode up to her door and knocked without getting off his horse, and when Dame Pridgett opened the door he looked down at her with such queer pale eyes he almost frightened her. \u003cbr\u003e\"Are you Dame Pridgett?\" he asked. \u003cbr\u003e\"I am,\" answered the dame. \u003cbr\u003e\"And do you go about nursing sick people?\" \u003cbr\u003e\"Yes, that is my business.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Then you are the one I want. My wife is ill, and I am seeking someone to nurse her.\"\u003cbr\u003eDownload and read this story to find out what happened next.\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":47071620661488,"sku":"2940158473975","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158473975_p0.jpg?v=1764113356","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158473975","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}