CANNETELLA - An Italian Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children?s Stories - Issue 175
About this ebook
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 175
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In this 175th issue of the Baba Indaba?s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the adventure story of the King of 'Bello Puojo.' He was very rich and powerful and had a daughter called Cannetella. She grew up into a beautiful girl, and was tall and straight limbed. Aged eighteen she was ready to be married and her father set about selecting a suitor for her. None matched up to Cannetella?s standards. The king had a deadly enemy called Scioravante, who was a very powerful magician. No sooner had he heard about the princess seeking a marriage than he summoned his attendant spirits and commanded them to gild his head and teeth. ÿHe then went off to woo the beautiful Cannetella. Well...........??. Download and read this story and find out just what happened when Scioravante and Cannetella met. Did she marry him or did someone else catch her attention?
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INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
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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.
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Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".
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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.
About the author
The Baba Indaba Children's Stories, published by Abela Publishing, often uses folklore and fairy tales which have their origins mists of time. Afterall who knows who wrote the story of Cinderella, also known in other cultures as Tattercoats or Conkiajgharuna. So who wrote the original? The answer is simple. No-one knows, or will ever know, so to assume that anyone owns the rights to these stories is nothing but nonsense. As such, we have decided to use the Author name "Anon E. Mouse" which, of course, is a play on the word "Anonymous".
