HEART OF ICE - a fairy tale

Book excerpt: ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 189 ÿ In this 189th issue of the Baba Indaba?s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the tale of ?A Heart of Ice? in which a King and Queen learn the hard way, that you can?t please everyone all of the time. The Queen gives birth to a son, Mannikin, but forget to invite one important fairy. Uninvited she arrives in a foul mood and curses the son to forever be of small stature in the intention that he will never amount to anything. But there is always more than one way to solve a problem, and Mannikin quickly learns that ?brains are mightier than brawn.?.????.Download and read this story to read about Mannikin?s life and how he overcomes the many obstacles and problems that he is faced with. But is the fairy?s curse ever broken? ÿ INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES ÿ 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. ÿ Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories". ÿ 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.