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LITTLE THUMB - A Fairy tale

LITTLE THUMB - A Fairy tale

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ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 158

In this 158th story in the Baba Indaba's Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the perennial fairy tale of LITTLE THUMB also known as Tom Thumb. A poor woodcutter and his wife give birth to a seventh child and christen him Tom. He small in stature and is not as able to carry out tasks like his brothers. However, he does have brains........... Download and read this story to find out how Tom uses his brains to improve his family's fortunes.

INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES

Each 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.
HINT - use Google maps.

Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".

It 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.
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