Tales from Silver Lands

{{Short description|1925 folktale collection by Charles Finger}}

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| author = Charles Finger

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| country = United States

| language = English

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| genre = Children's novel

| publisher = Doubleday

| release_date = 1924

| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)

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Tales from Silver Lands is a book by Charles Finger that won the Newbery Medal in 1925.

[http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Present"]. ALSC. ALA. Retrieved 2018-16-05.

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.{{cite journal |last=Popp |first=Marcia Brown |title=Tales from Silver Lands. |journal=Masterplots II: Juvenile & Young Adult Literature Series |volume=Supplement |date=March 1, 1997 |pages=1–2 |publisher=EBSCOhost}} Finger also includes information about how the tales were told, including some cultural norms, and any items used in telling the story.