Miss Tilda

Circle Round

WBUR

Storytelling, Kids & Family, Kids, Storytime, Children, Childrens' Story, Ages 4-10, Books, Story

4.5 • 16.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 1969

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Arienne Mandi (The L Word: Generation Q, The Night Agent) and Patrick Renna (You Gotta Believe, The Sandlot) go head-to-head in a battle of wits in this tale with roots across Europe, Asia, the Caribbean and the American Southwest.

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0:00.0	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
0:08.6	Imagine you have a friend who's struggling in some way.
0:13.6	How far would you go to help them out?
0:15.9	How big would your kindness and generosity stretch?
0:19.9	We're about to meet a schoolteacher whose kindness and generosity stretch so far,
0:24.9	they reach the stars.
0:30.3	I'm Rebecca Shear, and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time.
0:35.9	Today, our story is called Miss Tilda.
0:38.9	It's inspired by tales from many places, including, and this is quite a list,
0:43.7	the European country of Germany, the African nation of Ethiopia,
0:47.4	the Caribbean Islands of the West Indies, the Uyghur people of Central and East Asia,
0:51.7	the Sephardic Jewish community of Portugal and Spain, and
0:55.1	the Spanish-speaking community of New Mexico in the southwestern United States.
1:00.1	Some really great people came together to bring you our version of this folktale, including
1:03.9	Ariane Mande and Patrick Renna.
1:06.7	Grownups, you may know Ariane Mande from the L-word Generation Q, the Knight Agent, and the feature film, Tatami.
1:13.4	Patrick Renna burst onto the scene as Hamilton Ham Porter in the classic 1990s baseball film, The Sandlot.
1:19.6	He has a new children's book titled A Little Slugger's Guide to the Unwritten Rules of Baseball and Life.
1:26.1	So, circle around everyone. For Miss Tilda.
1:34.2	Miss Tilda, the schoolteacher, was known throughout town for her cleverness and wisdom. If two neighbors were having a
1:46.9	dispute, they couldn't settle. Don't worry, friends. We'll work this out. They'd go see Miss Tilda.
1:54.4	If a family was facing a crisis they couldn't solve. Not to fear, folks. I'm here for you. They'd visit Miss Tilda, too.
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