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Folklore and children

Here are entered works which discuss the relationship between children and folklore. Works on folklore produced by or for children and works on children as a theme in folklore are entered under Children -- Folklore.

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• Children's Folklore: A Source Book (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1999), ed. by Brian Sutton-Smith, Jay Mechling, Thomas W. Johnson, and Felicia R. McMahon
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Child and Childhood in Folk Thought (New York and London: MacMillan and Co., 1896), by Alexander Francis Chamberlain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Child and Childhood in Folk Thought, by Alexander Francis Chamberlain (Gutenberg text)

• Play and Folklore (formerly Australian Children's Folklore Newsletter; 1981-) (full serial archives)

• Children's Folklore Review (partial serial archives)
• Children's Folklore Newsletter (partial serial archives)

• Children's Folklore: A Source Book (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1999), ed. by Brian Sutton-Smith, Jay Mechling, Thomas W. Johnson, and Felicia R. McMahon
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The American Child (1913), by Elizabeth McCracken (Gutenberg text)
• The American Child (Boston and New York: Houghton Miffin Co., 1913), by Elizabeth McCracken, illust. by Alice Austin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic, by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith (Gutenberg text)
• Little Folks of Many Lands (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1904), by Lulu Maude Chance
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Children and Gardens (London: Offices of "Country life", Ltd.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1908), by Gertrude Jekyll
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Your Child Today and Tomorrow (second edition, 1920), by Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg (Gutenberg text)
• The Day Before Yesterday (New York: M. Kennerley, 1913), by Richard Middleton
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Our Little Alaskan Cousin, by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Gerard, Our Little Belgian Cousin (Boston: The Page Company, 1911), by Blanche McManus (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• Dare to be Creative! A Lecture Presented at the Library of Congress, November 16, 1983 (Washington: Library of Congress, 1984), by Madeleine L'Engle, contrib. by John Young Cole and Sybille A. Jagusch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imagination and Children's Reading (Northampton, MA: Hampshire Bookshop, 1921), by Grace Hazard Conkling
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• American Potpourri: Multi-Ethnic Books for Children and Young Adults; A Bibliography Based on the Acquisitions of the Educational Materials Center (Washington: Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, 1977), by Mary DeWitt Billings, Janet Shenk, and Rita D. McCain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected Books for Young Children; Selected Pictures for Young Children (second edition; New York: Educational Playthings, c1934), by Alice Dalgliesh and Rita Scherman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's Booklist, by Theosophical Society Children's Committee (HTML at theosophy-nw.org)
• A Pleasing Toy for Children (Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill, 1843)
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Child and His Picture Book: A Discussion of the Preferences of the Nursery Child (Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1933), by Larry Freeman and Ruth S. Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Foxy Grandpa and His Boys: Fun on the Farm (Chicago: M. A. Donohue, c1908), illust. by Bunny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foxy Grandpa Playing Ball (Chicago: M. A. Donohue, ca. 1908), illust. by Bunny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foxy Grandpa Rides the Goat (Chicago: M. A. Donohue, c1908), illust. by Bunny (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Chinese Boy and Girl, by Isaac Taylor Headland
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Domestic Pleasures, or, The Happy Fire-Side, by Frances Bowyer Vaux (Gutenberg text)
• Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's, by Sophie May
  • illustrated HTML at readseries.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Dotty Dimple at Play, by Sophie May (Gutenberg text)
• Dotty Dimple Out West, by Sophie May (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• First Lessons in Gentleness and Truth, by Adelia C. Graves (page images at MOA)
• Little Prudy (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., c1891), by Sophie May (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple, by Sophie May (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Little Prudy's Sister Susy, by Sophie May
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at readseries.com
• Prudy Keeping House, by Sophie May (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Step-Brothers: A Tale (London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1828), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Broken Vase, and Other Stories, for Children and Youth (Fitchburg, MA: S. and C. Shepley, 1847)
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Little Book About Little Birds, &c. (London: J. and C. Evans, 1826) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• William Penn's Advice to His Children, by William Penn
  • part 1: HTML at qhpress.org
  • part 2: HTML at qhpress.org
  • part 3: HTML at qhpress.org
• Wisdom In Miniature, or, The Young Gentleman And Lady's Magazine: Being A Collection Of Sentences, Divine and Moral (Philadelphia: Printed by J. Adams, 1805)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• La Civilité (Puérile et Honnête) Expliquée par l'Oncle Eugène (in French; Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit and Co., ca. 1887), by Eugène Plon, illust. by Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org

• An Account of Polly Sterns, A Girl of Twelve Years of Age, Who Lived on Lord Collier's Manor, in the Province of Lower Canada (Hudson: A. Stoddard, 1816) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Early Dead, or Transplanted Flowers: A Collection of Thoughts, Poetical and Scriptural, on the Death of Children (Worcester, MA: H. J. Howland, 1857), ed. by William C. Whitcomb (illustrated HTML at merrycoz.org)
• Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers to Prayer, by S. B. Shaw (HTML and RTF at CCEL)

• The Home Care of Sick Children: A Guide for Mothers in the Care of Sick Children (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1925), by Emelyn Lincoln Coolidge (page images at Cornell)
• Pediatrics of the Past: An Anthology (New York: P. B. Hoeber, 1925), ed. by John Ruhräh, contrib. by Fielding H. Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Treatise on the Physical and Medical Treatment of Children (tenth edition; Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1853), by William P. Dewees (multiple formats at archive.org)

• You Never Can Tell, by Bernard Shaw (Gutenberg text)

• Our Little English Cousin (Boston: L. C. Page and Company, c1908), by Blanche McManus (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• A High Wind in Jamaica (London: Chatto and Windus, c1929), by Richard Hughes
  • HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Madness of Philip, and Other Tales of Childhood (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1902.), by Josephine Daskam Bacon, illust. by Fanny Y. Cory (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Believing Years (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Edmund Lester Pearson
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.