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    BOYISLAV - YOUNGEST OF TWELVE - A Russian Children’s Story: Baba Indaba Children’s Stories - Issue 187
    BOYISLAV - YOUNGEST OF TWELVE - A Russian Children’s Story: Baba Indaba Children’s Stories - Issue 187
    BOYISLAV - YOUNGEST OF TWELVE - A Russian Children’s Story: Baba Indaba Children’s Stories - Issue 187
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    BOYISLAV - YOUNGEST OF TWELVE - A Russian Children’s Story: Baba Indaba Children’s Stories - Issue 187

    By Anon E. Mouse and Narrated by Baba Indaba

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    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 187
    In this 187th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Russian tale of “Boyislav, the Last of Twelve.” Twelve brothers are sent to Black Island but only Boyislav, the youngest of the twelve is brave enough to go ashore. Here he releases three princesses from a spell and sends them to his brothers waiting by the shore. But his brothers have other plans and with the princesses desert him on Black Island. Here he faces a number of challenges which have far reaching consequences and which lead him to travel to White Island where he finds a sleeping princess but cannot wake her.

    Eventually he makes his way back home but his brothers have told lies about him and he is arrested and thrown into jail. But is that the end of the story…………?

    Download and read this story to find out what the miracle was and if it got Boyislav released from jail.

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

    INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES

    10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.

     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateMay 2, 2017
    ISBN9788826082912
    BOYISLAV - YOUNGEST OF TWELVE - A Russian Children’s Story: Baba Indaba Children’s Stories - Issue 187

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      BOYISLAV - YOUNGEST OF TWELVE - A Russian Children’s Story - Anon E. Mouse

      BOYISLAV, YOUNGEST OF TWELVE

      A Czech Fairy Tale

      Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

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      Abela Publishing, London

      2016

      BOYISLAV, YOUNGEST OF TWELVE

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      ©Abela Publishing 2016

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      Abela Publishing,

      London, United Kingdom

      2016

      Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

      ISSN 2397-9607

      Issue 187

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      An Introduction to Baba Indaba

      Baba Indaba, pronounced Baaba Indaaba, lived in Africa a long-long time ago. Indeed, this story was first told by Baba Indaba to the British settlers over 250 years ago in a place on the South East Coast of Africa called Zululand, which is now in a country now called South Africa.

      In turn the British settlers wrote these stories down and they were brought back to England on sailing ships. From England they were in turn spread to all corners of the old British Empire, and then to the world.

      In olden times the Zulu’s did not have computers, or iPhones, or paper, or even pens and pencils. So, someone was assigned to be the Wenxoxi Indaba (Wensosi Indaaba) – the Storyteller. It was his, or her, job to memorise all the tribe’s history, stories and folklore, which had been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. So, from the time he was

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