General Bibliography

General Sources and Resources

* Brunvand, Jan Harold. Folklore —A Study and Research Guide. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976.

* _. The Study of American Folklore An Introduction. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1968. (This provides three particularly good chapters on riddles, rhymes, and folk games.)

* Clarkson, Atelia, and Gilbert B. Cross. World Folktales —A Scribner Resource Collection. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980.

* Dorson, Richard M. Folklore and Folklife —An Introduction. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1972.

Seeger, Ruth Crawford. American Folk Songs for Children. Illustrated by Barbara Cooney. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948.

* Thompson, Stith. The Folktale. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1956.

* Extensive bibliographies are provided.

Organizations, Journals and Newsletters

American Folklore Society —Membership is open to all persons interested in folklore. Annual dues (1703 New Hampshire Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20009): individual, $25.00; student, $12.50; joint (spouse of a members), $12.50; life $500.00; institution, $25.00. Members of the society automatically receive the Journal of American Folklore (January, April, July, and October) and the American Folklore Newsletter (February, April, July, and October), which is distributed free to members but is also available to nonmembers for $10.00 per year.

The Association for the Anthropological Study of Play —Annual dues (c/o Dr. Janice Beran, TSAAP Secretary-Treasurer, 300 PEB, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010): individual, $15.00; student, $7.50; life, $200.00; institution, $20.00. The association publishes a newsletter edited by Brian Sutton-Smith and the proceedings of its yearly meetings.

Children's Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society —Annual dues (Sue Samuelson, Secretary-Treasurer, Children's Folklore Section, 614 South 48th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19143): $5.00 per year. The Children's Folklore Newsletter, published three times a year, is sent to all members.

Folksong in the Classroom. Edited by John A. Scott and Laurence I. Seidman. This photocopied newsletter, published for "a network of teachers of history, literature, music and the humanities," appears four times a year and includes several folksongs in each issue, complete with music, lyrics, background information, and suggestions for teaching. Readers' comments, suggestions, and questions, followed by editorial responses, are included, as well as announcements and lists of available materials. To subscribe, send $1.50 to Laurence I. Seidman, 140 Hill Park Avenue, Great Neck, NY 11021.

Articles, Special Issues, and Bibliographies

"FOCUS/Children's Folklore," Center for Souther Folklore Magazine, 3:1 (Winter 1980), pp. 9-16. This special issue features twelve articles as well as a bibliography. Included are; "The Agony and the Ecstasy —Collecting Children's Folklore," C. W. Sullivan, III; "Gotcha!" (American children's ghost stories), Sylvia Grider; "Hey Didle Diddle/What's in a Riddle?," John McDowell; "How It Spreads," (culture of childhood), Gary Alan Fine; "Is the Game Over? —An Observation" (lost "art" of game playing), Katie Hade; "It's a Small World —A Child's Eye View: The U. N. Project," Geraldine Laybourne; "Kids Tell the Darndest Jokes," Danielle Roemer; "Lights, Cameras . . . Kids —A New Type of Media Center," Gina Michaels; "Once Upon a Ghoul" (Halloween storytelling), Elizabeth Tucker; "Pattycake, Pattycake —Traditional Handclaps," Beverly Stoeltje; "Peanuts & Baloney," (children's rhyme), C. W. Sullivan; and "We're Gonna Win Tonight —The Rhythm of School Spirit," Catherine Swanson. Photocopies of individual articles may be purchased at $1.00 apiece; those wishing photocopies of all twelve articles plus the bibliography should write to request the price: Kini Kedigh, Editor, CFS Magazine, 1216 Peabody Avenue, P. O. Box 40105, Memphis, TN 38104.

Grider, Sylvia Ann (ed.). "Children's Folklore," (Special Issue) Western Folklore, XXXIX:3 (July 1980). The contents include: "At a Children's Hospital: A Folklore Survey," Roberta Krell; "Children and Their Culture: Exploring Newell's Paradox," Gary Alan Fine; "Children's Cheers as Folklore," Jeanne Soileau; "The Cooties Complex," Sue Samuelson; "The Dramatization of Children's Narratives," Elizabeth Tucker; "A Select Bibliography of Childlore," Sylvia Ann Grider; "The Study of Children's Folklore," Sylvia Ann Grider; and "With a Dirty, Dirty Dishrag on Your Mother's Big Fat Toe: The Coda in the Counting-Out Rhyme," Andy Arleo. A copy of this...