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How Mushrooms First Grew African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

How Mushrooms First Grew

How Mushrooms First Grew — a tale of brothers, trickery, and transformation. Two brothers with bad habits deceived their community, changing the land.

How Beasts And Serpents First Came Into The World African Folk Tales Ages 9-12

How Beasts And Serpents First Came Into The World

How Beasts And Serpents First Came Into The World: The famine had lasted nearly three years. Kweku Tsin, being very hungry, looked daily in the forest in the

Farmer Mybrow And The Fairies African Folk Tales All Ages

Farmer Mybrow And The Fairies

Farmer Mybrow And The Fairies — a tale of justice and vindication. Farmer Mybrow faces cruel accusations, but justice arrives through supernatural intervention.

Honourable Minū African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

Honourable Minū

Honourable Minū: It happened one day that a poor Akim-man had to travel from his own little village to Accra - one of the big towns on the coast. This man

Anansi And Nothing African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

Anansi And Nothing

Anansi And Nothing: Near Anansi’s miserable little hut there was a fine palace where lived a very rich man called Nothing. Nothing and Anansi proposed, one

Anansi The Blind Fisherman African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

Anansi The Blind Fisherman

Anansi the Blind Fisherman: A Tale of Cleverness and Justice In a village near a great river in Africa, there lived a spider named Anansi. Unlike...

Adzanumee And Her Mother African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

Adzanumee And Her Mother

Adzanumee And Her Mother. A girl chooses between magic and memories. Learn why love and memories are worth more than anything else in the world.

How Did Stories Begin – A Zulu Folktale Aesop's Fables Ages 3-5

How Did Stories Begin – A Zulu Folktale

How Did Stories Begin – A Zulu Folktale: Zulus live in Africa. Like you, the children who live there also like to listen to stories. But what would happen if