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

CHILDREN’S FOLKLORE STUDIES
Avedon, Elliott M., and Brian Sutton-Smith. 
The Study of Games.
New York: Wiley, 1971.
Beckwith, Martha Warren. 
Jamaica Folk-Lore.
1928. New York: Kraus, 1969.

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Bishop, Julia C., and Mavis Curtis. 
Play Today in the Primary School Playground.
Bucking-
ham, Eng., and Philadelphia: Open UP, 2001.
Brady, Margaret K. 
“Some Kind of Power”: Navajo Children’s Skinwalker Narratives.
Salt 
Lake City: U of Utah P, 1984.
Bronner, Simon J. 
American Children’s Folklore.
Little Rock: August, 1988.
Brunvand, Jan Harold. 
The Baby Train.
New York: Norton, 1993.
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The Choking Doberman.
New York: Norton, 1984.
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The Vanishing Hitchhiker.
New York: Norton, 1981.
Calvert, Karin. 
Children in the House: The Material Culture of Childhood, 1600–1900.
Boston: Northeastern UP, 1992.
Carpenter, Carole Henderson. 
In Our Own Image: The Child, Canadian Culture, and Our 
Future.
Toronto: Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, 1996.
Chesanow, Jeanne R. 
Honeysuckle Sipping: The Plant Lore of Childhood.
Camden, ME: 
Down East, 1987.
Chudacoff, Howard P. 
Children at Play: An American History.
New York: New York UP, 
2007.
Cooper, Martha. 
Street Play.
New York: From Here to Fame, 2006.
Dargan, Amanda, and Steven Zeitlin. 
City Play.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1990.
Darian-Smith, Kate, and June Factor. 
Child’s Play: Dorothy Howard and the Folklore of Aus-
tralian Children. 
Melbourne: Museum Victoria, 2005.
Dégh, Linda. 
Legend and Belief.
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2001.
Douglas, Norman. 
London Street Games.
1916. London: Chatto and Windus, 1931.
Dundes, Alan. 
Bloody Mary in the Mirror: Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics.
Jackson: 
UP of Mississippi, 2002.
Earle, Alice Morse. 
Child Life in Colonial Days.
New York: Macmillan, 1898.
Ellis, Bill. 
Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live.
Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2003.
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Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture.
Lexington: UP of 
Kentucky, 2004.
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Raising the Devil.
Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2000.
Factor, June. 
Captain Cook Chased a Chook: Children’s Folklore in Australia.
[New York]: 
Penguin, 1988.
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Kidspeak: A Dictionary of Australian Children’s Words, Expressions and Games.
Melbourne: U of Melbourne, 2000.
Fowke, Edith. 
Sally Go Round the Sun: 300 Songs, Rhymes and Games of Canadian Children.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1969.
Gaignebet, Claude. 
Le Folklore Obscène des Enfants
[Obscene Folklore of Children]. Paris: 
G.-P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1974.
Gaunt, Kyra D. 
The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-
Hop.
New York: New York UP, 2006.
Goldstein, Diane E., Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas.
 Haunting Experiences: 
Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore.
Logan: Utah State UP, 2007.
Gomme, Alice B. 
The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
2 vols. 1894 –
98. New York: Dover, 1964.
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Old English Singing Games.
London: David Nutt.

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Gomme, Alice B., and Cecil J. Sharp, eds. 
Children’s Singing Games.
1909–12. New York: 
Arno, 1976.
Gomme, Laurence, and Alice B. Gomme. 
British Folklore, Folk-Songs, and Singing Games.
London: David Nutt, 1916.
Goodwin, Marjorie Harness. 
He-Said-She-Said: Talk As Social Organization among Black 
Children.
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991.
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The Hidden Life of Girls: Games of Stance, Status, and Exclusion.
Boston: Black-
well, 2006.
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 Ann. “The Supernatural Narratives of Children.” Diss., Indiana U, 1976.
Hastings, Scott E., Jr. 
Miss Mary Mac All Dressed in Black: Children’s Lore from New 
England.
Little Rock: August, 1990.
Jones, Bessie, and Bess Lomax Hawes. 
Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from 
the Afro-American Heritage.
New York: Harper and Row, 1972.
Kalliala, Marjatta. 
Play Culture in a Changing World.
Maidenhead, Eng.: Open UP, 
2006.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. 
Speech Play: Research and Resources for Studying Linguistic 
Creativity.
Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1976.
Knapp, Mary, and Herbert Knapp. 
One Potato, Two Potato: The Secret Education of Ameri-
can Children.
New York: Norton, 1976.
McDowell, John Holmes. 
Children’s Riddling.
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1979.
———. “The Speech Play and Verbal Art of Chicano Children: An Ethnographic and 
Sociolinguistic Survey.” Diss., U of Texas at Austin, 1975.
McMahon, Felicia R. 
Not Just Child’s Play: Emerging Tradition and the Lost Boys of Sudan.
Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2007.
Mechling, Jay. 
On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth.
Chicago: U of 
Chicago P, 2001.
Mergen, Bernard. 
Play and Playthings.
Westport: Greenwood, 1982.
Opie, Iona. 
The People in the Playground.
New York: Oxford UP, 1993.
Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie. 
Children’s Games in Street and Playground.
New York: Oxford 
UP, 1969.
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I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth.
London: Williams and Norgate, 1947.
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The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren.
New York: Oxford UP, 1959.
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The Singing Game.
New York: Oxford UP, 1985.
Roemer, Danielle. “A Social Interactional Analysis of Anglo Children’s Folklore: Catches 
and Narratives.” Diss., U of Texas at Austin, 1977.
Russell, Heather. 
Play and Friendships in a Multi-Cultural Playground.
Melbourne: Aus-
tralian Children’s Folklore Publications, 1986.
Santino, Jack. 
Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life.
Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 
1994.
Sherman, Josepha, and T.K.F. Weisskopf. 
Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive 
Folklore of Childhood.
Little Rock: August, 1995.

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Shuman, Amy. 
Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986.
Smith, Paul, ed. 
Perspectives on Contemporary Legend.
Sheffield: Centre for English Cultural 
Tradition and Language, 1984.
Strutt, Joseph. 
Sports and Pastimes of the People of England.
London: Tegg, 1801.
Sutton-Smith, Brian. 
The Ambiguity of Play.
Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1998.
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The Folkgames of Children.
Austin: U of Texas P, 1972.
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The Folkstories of Children.
Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1981.
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The Games of New Zealand Children.
Los Angeles and Berkeley: U of California P, 
1959.
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A History of Children’s Play: The New Zealand Playground 1840–1950.
Philadel-
phia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1981.
Sutton-Smith, Brian, Jay Mechling, Thomas W. Johnson, and Felicia R. McMahon, eds. 
Children’s Folklore: A Source Book.
New York: Garland, 1995.
Tucker, Elizabeth. “Tradition and Creativity in the Storytelling of Pre-Adolescent Girls.” 
Diss., Indiana U, 1977.
Turner, Ian. 
Cinderella Dressed in Yella.
Melbourne: Heinemann, 1969.
Virtanen, Leea. 
Children’s Lore.
Studia Fennica 22. Helsinki: Suomalisen Kirjallisuuden 
Seura, 1978.
Whatley, Mariamne H., and Elissa R. Henken. 
Did You Hear about the Girl Who . . .?: Con-
temporary Legends, Folklore, and Human Sexuality.
New York: New York UP, 2000.
Widdowson, John D. A. 
If You Don’t Be Good: Verbal Social Control in Newfoundland.
Social and Economic Studies 21. St. John’s, Newfoundland: Institute of Social and 
Economic Research, 1977.
Wolfenstein, Martha. 
Children’s Humor: A Psychological Analysis.
New York: Free, 1954. 
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978.
Zeitlin, Steven J., Amy J. Kotkin, and Holly Cutting Baker. 
A Celebration of American 
Family Folklore.
Cambridge, MA: Yellow Moon, 1982.

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