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    CINDERELLA or the Little Glass Slipper - A Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 246
    CINDERELLA or the Little Glass Slipper - A Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 246
    CINDERELLA or the Little Glass Slipper - A Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 246
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    CINDERELLA or the Little Glass Slipper - A Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 246

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    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 246
    In this 246th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the story of “” also known in some places as “the Little Glass Slipper.”
    A widower marries for a second time after his first wife passes away. Very soon after the marriage, the new wife’s true countenance is displayed, as are those of her two mean-spirited daughters.
    The gentleman’s daughter by his first marriage is treated like a housemaid and servant rather than a sister and relegated to the kitchen to sit on a stool along the fireplace. They nickname her Cinderella, or maid of the cinders.
    One day a messenger from the King’s court arrives with invitations to the ball. Is it coincidence that the Stepmother and step-sisters forget to extend the invite to Cinderella.
    Nevertheless, Cinderella is put to work making and adjusting the ball gowns of beautiful silks, pressing the pleats, polishing the jewellery and getting them ready for the ball.
    On the day, off they go to the ball leaving Cinderella seated on her stool by the fire wishing she could go as well.
    And then something strange and altogether wonderful happens. A bright blue light appears and shimmers in the kitchen………
    What happened next you ask? Did Cinders get to go to the ball or was she whisked away to a far and distant land? Well, you’ll just have to download and read the story to find out. Also, be sure to read the story’s moral message at the end.

    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.

    33% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
    INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateMay 11, 2017
    ISBN9788826089690
    CINDERELLA or the Little Glass Slipper - A Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 246

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      CINDERELLA or the Little Glass Slipper - A Fairy Tale - Anon E. Mouse

      CINDERELLA

      or the Little Glass Slipper

      A Fairy Tale

      Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

      Published By

      Abela Publishing, London

      2016

      CINDERELLA

      or the Little Glass Slipper

      Typographical arrangement of this edition

      ©Abela Publishing 2016

      This book may not be reproduced in its current format

      in any manner in any media, or transmitted

      by any means whatsoever, electronic,

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      (including photocopy, file or video recording,

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      information storage and retrieval system)

      except as permitted by law

      without the prior written permission

      of the publisher.

      Abela Publishing,

      London, United Kingdom

      2016

      Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

      ISSN 2397-9607

      Issue 246

      Email:

      Books@AbelaPublishing.com

      Website:

      www.AbelaPublishing.com

      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

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