Children's Literature - Indianapolis - Fables, folk and fairy tales

This website holds a unique collection of stories recorded between 1997 and 2001 in every region of Ethiopia. You can read the stories in both English and Amharic.

In 1996, I set up a project with the British Council in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Ministry of Education to collect stories from traditional storytellers in the many regions of Ethiopia. The aim of the project was to write readers in simplified English, so that Ethiopian school children could increase their fluency in reading English while learning and enjoying their own cultural heritage.