Tales From Silver Lands
by Charles Joseph Finger Author
Tales from Silver Lands is a book by Charles Finger that won the Newbery Medal in 1925. The book is a collection of nineteen folktales of the native populations of Central and South America. Collected during Finger's travels, it was one of the first volumes of South American indigenous folktales available to children.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0590035290
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 19
- Suggested Grades
- 8th - 12th
- Geographical Setting
- Central and South America
- Publisher
- Scholastic
Chapters
- 1 A tale of three tails
- 2 The magic dog
- 3 The calabash man
- 4 Na-Ha the fighter
- 5 The humming-bird and the flower
- 6 The magic ball
- 7 El Enano
- 8 The hero twins
- 9 The four hundred
- 10 The killing of Cabrakan
- 11 The tale of the gentle folk
- 12 The tale that cost a dollar
- 13 The magic knot
- 14 The bad wishers
- 15 The hungry old witch
- 16 The wonderful mirror
- 17 The tale of the lazy people
- 18 Rairu and the star maiden
- 19 The cat and the dream man
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