Child's play
Subtitle: Dorothy Howard and the folklore of Australian children
By: edited by Kate Darian-Smith & June Factor.
Contributors: Darian-Smith, Kate.; Factor, June, 1936-; Museum Victoria.
Publisher: Museum Victoria
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Carlton, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Howard, Dorothy, 1902-; Games -- Australia.; Play -- Australia.; Folklore and children -- Australia.
Description: "American scholar Dorothy Howard came into the unique cultural landscape of mid-1950's Australia, notebook in hand, to document the play of Australian children. She was the first person ever to do so. What she found was remarkable: hundreds of games, rhymes, sayings, chants, taunts, riddles and secret languages. This was a varied and lively and ever-changing tradition of children's play, and all happening 'three feet below adult eye level and invisible to myopic adults'."-- p. [4] of cover.
Notes: Bibliography.
Includes index.