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    ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES - A Children’s Story from 1001 Arabian Nights: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 225
    ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES - A Children’s Story from 1001 Arabian Nights: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 225
    ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES - A Children’s Story from 1001 Arabian Nights: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 225
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    ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES - A Children’s Story from 1001 Arabian Nights: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 225

    By Anon E. Mouse and Narrated by Baba Indaba

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    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 225
    In this 225th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Arabian Nights story of “THE STORY OF ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES”.

    ONCE upon a time, long, long ago and far, far away in a town in Persia lived two brothers named Cassim and Ali Baba, between whom their father at his death had left what little property he possessed equally divided. Ali married a wife as poor as himself, and having no other means of gaining a livelihood he used to go every day into the forest to cut wood, and lading therewith the three asses which were his sole stock-in-trade, would then hawk it about the streets for sale.

    One day while he was at work within the skirts of the forest, Ali Baba saw advancing towards him across the open a large company of horsemen, and fearing from their appearance that they might be robbers, he left his asses to their own devices and sought safety for himself in the lower branches of a large tree which grew in the close overshadowing of a precipitous rock.

    Almost immediately it became evident that this very rock was the goal toward which the troop was bound, for having arrived they alighted instantly from their horses, and took down each man of them a sack which seemed by its weight and form to be filled with gold. There could no longer be any doubt that they were robbers. Ali Baba counted forty of them.

    Just as he had done so, the one nearest to him, who seemed to be their chief, advanced toward the rock, and in a low but distinct voice uttered the two words "OPEN SESAME!" Immediately the rock opened like a door, the captain and his men passed in, and the rock closed behind them. And thus begins the story and adventures of Ali Baba.

    We invite you to download the story here and read the full tale of Ali Baba, his wife and the Forty Thieves and the many adventures they had.

    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.

    10% 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 8, 2017
    ISBN9788826088969
    ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES - A Children’s Story from 1001 Arabian Nights: Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 225

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      ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES - A Children’s Story from 1001 Arabian Nights - Anon E. Mouse

      Ali-Baba and the Forty Thieves

      A Tale from the Arabian Nights

      Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

      Published By

      Abela Publishing, London

      2016

      ALI-BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES

      Typographical arrangement of this edition

      ©Abela Publishing 2016

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      Abela Publishing,

      London, United Kingdom

      2016

      Baba Indaba Children’s Stories

      ISSN 2397-9607

      Issue 225

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      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 generation for thousands of years. So, from the time he was a young boy, Baba Indaba had been apprenticed to the tribe’s Wenxoxi Indaba to learn the stories. Every day the Wenxoxi Indaba would narrate the stories and Baba Indaba would have to recite the story back to the Wenxoxi Indaba, word for word. In this manner he learned the stories of the Zulu nation.

      In time the Wenxoxi Indaba grew old and when he could no longer see or hear, Baba Indaba became the next in a long line of Wenxoxi Indabas. So fond were the children of him that they continued to call him Baba Indaba

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