Author: Debjani Chatterjee
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Category : Bengali (South Asian people)
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Dual text in English and Bengali for children.

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Author: Anon E. Mouse
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 288 In this 288th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Indian fairy tale of “THE SNAKE PRINCE”. A poor old lady checked her larder and found she only had enough rice for one last meal. Resigning herself to her fate, she puts her last cake of soap into her only possession of note, a bronze bowl, before going to the river to have a final wash, for she did not want to found dead and dirty. She covered her bowl with a towel and set off on the final journey of her life. After washing in the Brahmaputra river, she picked up her towel and was astonished to see a snake curled up in the bowl. After drying off she noticed that snake had not vacated the bowl and so she covered the snake walked on home. At home she took the towel off the bowl and shook out the contents. She was astonished to find a beautiful necklace fall onto her table with her cake of soap. She peered into the bowl and found it was empty. The next day she petitioned the king and sold the necklace to him for a tidy sum. No longer would she go hungry, nor want for some of the niceties of life. Knowing the necklace was valuable, the king locked the necklace in a secure chest and placed it in his vault. A month or two later they a messenger arrived from a neighbouring kingdom with an invitation to attend a festival and banquet to celebrate the birth of a daughter. This made the king very sad for he and his wife had been trying to have children for a while and had been unsuccessful. However, his wife said, “let not our sadness also be the sadness of our friends.” Then she said to the messenger “Of course we will attend,” and dismissed the messenger with the message. Preparations were put in place for the state visit. Elephants were acquired and their cupola’s were prepared and decorated. Dresses and clothing were taken out of wardrobes and packed in trunks with balls of hardened camphor and other perfumes to prepare them for the long journey ahead. At the last moment the King goes to his vault to retrieve the necklace he bought from the old lady. Taking the key from around his neck he knelt to unlock the trunk. When he opened the trunk he got the surprise of his life……..! And this is where our story really begins. What did he find you ask? Download and read the story of THE SNAKE PRINCE to find out what the King found in his trunk and how it changed his life forever. BUY ANY 4 BABA INDABA CHILDREN’S STORIES FOR ONLY $1 33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" geographic challenge 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".

Author: Edna Ledgard
Publisher: Interlink Books
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Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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collected and retold by Edna Ledgard The people of Burma/Myanmar call it Shwe Pyidaw, the Golden Land, their fertile valley cradled in a horseshoe of mountains. When squabbling Western nations vied for control of the newly-mapped country a century ago, the local population had already lived in the mountainous land for over a millenium. Throughout those centuries, the legends and tales rooted in animist religions created a rich tapestry of spirits that underlie the later arrival of Buddhism. "Nat" spirits, dragons, winged lion-dogs, ogres, mythical galon birds, sorceresses and many more populated the land. This volume brings together 25 of the most-loved of these folk tales.

Author: Your Story Wizard
Publisher: Your Story Wizard
ISBN: 194622409X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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This is the story of a young prince, a magic snake charmer, a mysterious illness, the joy of living, and most of all, true love.

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ISBN: 9789831655757
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 16

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Author: Anon E. Mouse
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 8822809424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Herein you will find stories like; Life’s Secret, Phakir Chand, The Indigent Brahman, The Story Of The Rakshasas, The Story Of Prince Sobur, The Origin Of Opium, The Man Who Wished To Be Perfect, The Story Of A Brahmadaitya, The Origin Of Rubies and many more. Originally narrated in Bengali, at the behest of Richard Temple, to whom this book is dedicated, Rev. Behari Day translated them into English for a Western audience. These stories are further brought to life through the 32 colour illustrations by Warrick Goble, adding a welcome dimension to the stories, making it easier for children to imagine the settings for the characters and stories contained herein. Stories have also been purloined from Brahmans, barbers, servants and other sources. We, therefore, have reason to believe that the stories given in this book are a genuine sample of the old, old stories told by old Bengali women from age to age through a hundred generations. Bengali folklore constitutes a considerable portion of Bengali literature. In Bengali society, as with most ancient societies, folk literature became a collective product. It also assumes the traditions, emotions, thoughts and values of the community. Rev. Lal Behari Day was told these 22 Bengali tales by his Gammer Grethel. In turn his Gammer (Grandmother) heard these as a little girl at the knee of her old grandmother, reputed to be a good story-teller. This means these stories have been told and passed down for no less than 5 generations before the author heard them, which takes us back to at least AD1720 - if not earlier. YESTERDAY'S BOOKS FOR TODAY'S CHARITIES 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities

Author: Lal Behari Day
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bengali (South Asian people)
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Abanindranath Tagore
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199092176
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Fantasy Fictions from the Bengal Renaissance presents two masterpieces of Bengali literature by Rabindranath Tagore’s nephews, Abanindranath Tagore and Gaganendranath Tagore. The Make-Believe Prince is the delightful story of a king, his two wives, a trickster monkey, a witch, and a helper from another world who is not a ‘fairy godmother’. Abanindranath deploys traditional children’s rhymes and paints exquisite word-pictures in his original rendering of a tale which has its roots in Bengali folktale materials in various genres. Toddy-Cat the Bold sees a group of brave comrades seek help from a young boy to rescue the son of their leader from the Two-Faced Rakshasa of the forest. Here, a more numinous supernatural helper appears. Inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, it presents a comic, exciting, and mysterious journey quite unlike Carroll’s, with many traditional local touches and an unexpected ending.

Author: Lal Behari Day
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Category : Bengali (South Asian people)
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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