About this ebook
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 173
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In this 173rd issue of the Baba Indaba?s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the adventure story of Juan Ponce de Leon. In March 1512 he set forth from Porto Rico to seek the famed island of Bimini and its Fountain of Eternal Youth. He was more moved by the love of adventure more than by the search for juvenility. His search led him North until he landed on what he thought was the island and met and befriended people of the First Nation before setting off in search of the font..........??. Download and read this true story of adventure into the lands of the New World.
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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.
ÿAbout the author
It is not known who originally recorded the story of Juan Ponce de Leon, but like all adventurers of the day, there most certainly been a scribe to report the events of the journey. What was the name of this scribe ? unfortunately history does not provide this.
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".
