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

Introduction to Folklore.
Ed. Robert J. Adams. Columbus: 
Collegiate, 1973. 70–79.
Hansen, Randall. “School Days, School Days: A Study of Folklore in Southern Utah’s 
Public Schools, 1920-1982.” Fife Folklore Archives, Folk Collection 8: USU, box 18: 
82-108, Summer 1982.
Haring, Lee, and Mark Breslerman. “The Cropsey Maniac.” 
New York Folklore 
3.1– 4 
(1977): 15–27.
Hutchins, Courtney. “Humor Through the Eyes of a Child.” Fife Folklore Archives, Folk 
Collection 8: USU, box 73: 01-035, Spring 2001.
Johnson, Nola. “Collection Project.” Northeast Folklore Archive, University of Maine, 
217:13. 1967.
Knapp, Mary, and Herbert Knapp. 
One Potato, Two Potato: The Secret Education of Ameri-
can Children.
New York: Norton, 1976.

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Folklore
Kvideland, Reimund. “Stories about Death as a Part of Children’s Socialization.” 
Folklore 
on Two Continents.
Ed. Carl Lindahl and Nikolai Burlakoff. Bloomington: Trickster, 
1980. 59– 64.
Langlois, Janet. “ ‘Mary Whales, I Believe in You’: Myth and Ritual Subdued.” 
Indiana 
Folklore
11.1 (1978): 5–33.
Legman, Gershon. 
Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor.
New York: 
Grove P, 1968.
McDowell, John H. “The Speech Play and Verbal Art of Chicano Children: An 
Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Study.” Diss., U of Texas at Austin, 1975.
Michaels, Barbara, and Bettye Whyte, 
Apples on a Stick: The Folklore of Black Children.
New 
York: Coward-McCann, 1983.
Miller, Sara. “Children’s Folklore Autobiography.” Unpublished essay, Binghamton Univer-
sity. March 23, 2007.
Newell, William Wells. 
Games and Songs of American Children.
1883. New York: Dover, 
1963.
Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie. 
Children’s Games in Street and Playground.
Oxford: Claren-
don, 1969.
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The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren.
New York: Oxford UP, 1959.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes.
1951. Oxford: Clarendon, 1973.
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The Singing Game.
New York: Oxford UP, 1985.
Posen, I. Sheldon. “Pranks and Practical Jokes at Children’s Summer Camps.” 
Southern 
Folklore Quarterly
38 (1974): 299–309.
Randolph, Vance, and May K. McCord. “Autograph Albums in the Ozarks.” 
Journal of 
American Folklore
61.240 (1948): 182–93.
Roemer, Danielle. “A Social Interactional Analysis of Anglo Children’s Folklore: Catches 
and Narratives.” Diss., U of Texas at Austin, 1977.
Rush, Judith. “Twin Pranks and Practical Jokes.” 
Children’s Folklore Newsletter
10.3 
(1987): 3–8.
Russell, Heather. 
Play and Friendships in a Multi-Cultural Playground.
Melbourne: 
Australian Children’s Folklore Publications, 1986.
Sherman, Josepha, and T.K.F. Weisskopf. 
Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive 
Folklore of Childhood.
Little Rock: August, 1995.
“The Singing Playground.” 
Museum of Childhood.
 2004. http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/
childrens_lives/holidays_entertainment/the_singing_playground/index.htm.
Smedley, Stephanie. “Children’s Folklore of Northern Utah and Southern Idaho.” Fife 
Folklore Archives, Folk Collection 8: USU, box 67: 98-020, Spring 1998.
Starr, Mrs. Morton H. “Wisconsin Pastimes.” 
Journal of American Folklore
67.264 
(1954): 184.
Staunton, Sara. “Riddle Use and Comprehension in Irish School-Aged Children: A 
Developmental Study.” 
Children’s Folklore Review
23.2 (Spring 2001): 7–100.
Sutton-Smith, Brian. “The Kissing Games of Adolescents in Ohio.” 1959. 
The Folkgames 
of Children.
Ed. Brian Sutton-Smith. Austin: U of Texas P, 1972. 465–90.
Taggert, Jan. “Jump-Rope Rhymes.” Fife Folklore Archives, Folk Collection 8: USU, box 
16: 82-087, Spring 1982.

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Thomas, Jeannie B. “Dumb Blondes, Dan Quayle and Hillary Clinton: Gender, Sexuality 
and Stupidity in Jokes.” 
Journal of American Folklore
110.437 (1997): 277–313.
Tucker, Elizabeth. 
Campus Legends: A Handbook.
Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005.
———. “Cropsey at Camp.” 
Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore
32.3– 
4 
(2006): 42.
———. “Tradition and Creativity in the Storytelling of Pre-Adolescent Girls.” Diss., 
Indiana U, 1977.
———. “ ‘I Hate You, You Hate Me’: Children’s Responses to Barney the Dinosaur.” 
Children’s Folklore Review
22.1 (1999): 25–33.
Virtanen, Leea. 
Children’s Lore.
Studia Fennica 22. Helsinki: Suomalisen Kirjallisuuden 
Seura, 1978.
Vlach, John. “One Black Eye and Other Horrors: A Case for the Humorous Anti-Legend.” 
Indiana Folklore
4 (1971): 95–140.
Weiss, Halina. “
Draznilkas
—Russian Children’s Taunts.” 
Slavic and East European Folklore 
Association Journal 
4.2 (Spring 1999): 35– 46.
Williams, Melissa. “Children’s Playground Games.” Fife Folklore Archives, Folk Collection 
8: USU, box 67: 98-024, April 1998.

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