Tales from Silver Lands

The 1925 Newbery Medal Winner for best children's literature published in the United States, this collection of Central and South American indigenous folk tales holds stories that will still be new to most North American ears. Full of cultural charm, these tales also hold the same degree of strangeness, flights of fancy, and fearful shadows that can be found in the tales of European-based folklore. This book is entertaining for adults as well as children. (Summary by Lynette Caulkins) (6 hr 28 min)

Chapters

A Tale of Three Tails	21:02	Read by Lynette Caulkins
The Magic Dog	15:03	Read by Mark Shellhammer
The Calabash Man	21:31	Read by Keith Ghormley
Na-Ha the Fighter	14:07	Read by Lynette Caulkins
The Humming-Bird and the Flower	8:01	Read by Mark Shellhammer
The Magic Ball	18:44	Read by Keith Ghormley
El Enano	18:37	Read by Lynette Caulkins
The Hero Twins	15:51	Read by Mark Shellhammer
The Four Hundred	22:36	Read by Keith Ghormley
The Killing of Cabrakan	13:04	Read by Lynette Caulkins
The Tale of the Gentle Folk	14:21	Read by Mark Shellhammer
The Tale that Cost a Dollar	25:13	Read by Keith Ghormley
The Magic Knot	21:10	Read by Lynette Caulkins
The Bad Wishers	14:46	Read by Mark Shellhammer
The Hungry Old Witch	20:43	Read by Keith Ghormley
The Wonderful Mirror	25:00	Read by Lynette Caulkins
The Tale of the Lazy People	28:54	Read by Mark Shellhammer
Rairu and the Star Maiden	16:02	Read by Keith Ghormley
The Cat and the Dream Man	53:48	Read by Lynette Caulkins

Reviews

nice kids stories

(5 stars)

Marty Leroy

very fun and terrific narration

Nice for the academic audience, but not for children

(5 stars)

Bill Cosby

Stories are not meant for children. They do NOT include lessons on the evils of whiteness or heteronormativity. They are, however, useful to the academic sociologist because they are vivid depictions of just how backwards and Raycyst society was back in 1925. We have progressed so much since then but have much much further to go. Imagine a publisher publishing a kids story today that did not at least try to attack the systemic raycysm that lies at the heart of American capitalism.