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.