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    The Story of Tiki-Pu and Wio-Wani - A Chinese Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Childrens Stories Issue 035
    The Story of Tiki-Pu and Wio-Wani - A Chinese Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Childrens Stories Issue 035
    The Story of Tiki-Pu and Wio-Wani - A Chinese Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Childrens Stories Issue 035
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    The Story of Tiki-Pu and Wio-Wani - A Chinese Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Childrens Stories Issue 035

    By Anon E. Mouse and Narrated by Baba Indaba

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    In Issue 35 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the Chinese tale of “TIKI-PU AND WIO-WANI”. Tiki-Pu is a servant and general dogsbody in a prestigious Chinese art school. “Fetch this Tiki-Pu”, “Get that  Tiki-Pun”, “Tiki-Pu where are my colours” and on it went, day after day, month after month, year after year.

    Not considered good enough to be an apprentice, he dreams that one day his work would hang alongside that of his master. And every day after the students go home, he practises and practises. But will his dreams ever become a reality? Well you're invited to download and read the story to find out if Tiki-Pu’s dreams become a reality.

    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.

    INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
    10% of the profit from the sale of this issue is donated to charity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateMar 28, 2017
    ISBN9781910882351
    The Story of Tiki-Pu and Wio-Wani - A Chinese Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Childrens Stories Issue 035

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      The Story of Tiki-Pu and Wio-Wani - A Chinese Fairy Tale - Anon E. Mouse

      The Story of Tiki-Pu and Wio-Wani

      A Chhinese Folk Tale

      Narrated by Baba Indaba

      Published by

      Abela Publishing, London

      [2016]

      THE STORY OF TIKI-PU AND WIO-WANI

      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,

      electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical

      (including photocopy, file or video recording,

      internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other

      information storage and retrieval system)

      except as permitted by law

      without the prior written permission

      of the publisher.

      Abela Publishing,

      London, United Kingdom

      2015

      ISSN 2397-9607

      Issue 35

      Email

      Books@AbelaPublishing.com

      Website

      www.AbelaPublishing.com

      Introduction

      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

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