ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 111In issue 111 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the West African tale about A Maiden and a Pumpkin. A young girl asks her mother to pick her a pumpkin, and the mother, already laden, says not today. The next day the girl awakes to see the pumpkin she wanted hopping into town and it begins to follow her about asking to be fed meat ......... Download and read this story to find out what happened to the girl, her mother and her meat-eating pumpkin.INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIESEach 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, on map. HINT - use Google maps.Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".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 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, are altogether quite different and seem to have originated on the whole from separate reservoirs of lore, legend and culture.