Children's Folklore
Subtitle: A SourceBook (Garland Reference Library of Social Science)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780824054182
Subjects: Adolescents; Children; Folklore; Research; Oral And Folk Literature; Sociology; Reference; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Education / General; Folklore and children
First sentence: Most scholars date the serious study of children's folklore to two nineteenth-century collections of children's games: The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland: Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing According to the Variants Extant and Recorded in Different Parts of the Kingdom (1894-98) by Lady Alice Bertha Gomme and Games and Songs of American Children (1883) by William Wells Newell, the first secretary of the American Folklore Society.