Children’s Folklore Recent Titles in Greenwood Folklore Handbooks Myth: a handbook

Kidspeak: A Dictionary of Australian Children’s Words, Expressions and Games.
Melbourne: U of Melbourne, 2000.
———. “Three Myths about Children’s Folklore.” 
Play Today in the Primary School 
Playground.
Ed. Julia C. Bishop and Mavis Curtis. Buckingham, Eng., and Philadelphia: 
Open UP, 2001. 24 –36.
Fine, Gary Alan. “Folklore Diffusion through Interactive Social Networks: Conduits in a 
Preadolescent Community.” 
New York Folklore
5.1–2 (1979): 87–126.
Fraiberg, Selma. 
The Magic Years.
New York: Scribner, 1959.
Freud, Sigmund. 
Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious.
1905. New York: Norton, 
1963.
Gaunt, Kyra D. 
The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-
Hop.
New York: New York UP, 2006.
Gelwicks, Jesse. “Redwood Grove: Youth Culture within a Group Home.” 
Children’s 
Folklore Review
24.1–2 (2002): 65–83.
Goldstein, Kenneth S. “Strategy in Counting Out: An Ethnographic Field Study.” 
The
Study of Games.
Ed. Elliott M. Avedon and Brian Sutton-Smith. New York: Wiley, 
1971. 167–78.
Gomme, Alice Bertha. 
The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
2 vols. 
1894 –98. New York: Dover, 1964.
Green, Joanne, and J.D.A. Widdowson. 
Traditional English Language Genres: Continuity 
and Change, 1950 –2000.
Sheffield: National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, 
2003.
Grider, Sylvia. “The Supernatural Narratives of Children.” Dissertation, Indiana University, 
1976.
Hall, Gary. “Folkgames.” 
Introduction to Folklore.
Ed. Robert J. Adams. Columbus: 
Collegiate, 1973. 70 –79.
“Halloween Poisonings.” 
Urban Legends Reference Pages.
 2005. http://www.snopes.com/
horrors/poison/halloween.asp.
Haring, Lee, and Mark Breslerman. “The Cropsey Maniac.” 
New York Folklore
3.1– 4 
(1977): 15–27.
Hawes, Bess Lomax. “ ‘La Llorona’ in Juvenile Hall.” 
Western Folklore
27.3 (1968): 
153 –70.
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Pizza Pizza Daddy-O.
Betacam tape. University of California at Berkeley, 1969.
Hellendoorn, Joop, Rimmert van der Kooij, and Brian Sutton-Smith, eds. 
Play and 
Intervention.
Albany: SUNY Press, 1994.
Huizinga, Johan. 
Homo Ludens.
1938. Boston: Beacon, 1955.

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Folklore
Jorgensen, Marilyn. “Teases and Pranks.” 
Children’s Folklore: A Source Book.
Ed. Brian 
Sutton-Smith, Jay Mechling, Thomas W. Johnson, and Felicia R. McMahon. New 
York and London: Garland, 1995. 213 –24.
Kalliala, Marjatta. 
Play Culture in a Changing World.
Maidenhead, Eng.: Open 
UP, 2006.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara, and Mary Sanches. “Children’s Traditional Speech 
Play and Child Language.” 
Speech Play: Research and Resources for Studying Linguistic 
Creativity.
Ed. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 
1976.
Knapp, Mary and Herbert. 
One Potato, Two Potato: The Secret Education of American 
Children.
New York: Norton, 1976.
Krell, Roberta. “At a Children’s Hospital: A Folklore Survey.” 
Western Folklore
39 (1980): 
223 –31.
Lash, Sarah. “Situating Puzzles: Exploring a Neglected Genre.” 
Midwest Folklore
31.2 
(2005): 15–38.
Leary, James P. “The Boondocks Monster of Camp Wapehani.” 
Indiana Folklore
6.2 
(1973): 174 –90.
Mansfield, Susan. “Sonic Takes on the Dusty Bluebells.”