Child's Play: Dorothy Howard and the Folklore of Australian Children

- Essays by Dorothy Howard, June Factor, Kate Darian-Smith and Brian Sutton-Smith, (Museum Victoria, Melbourne, 2005.)

Publication date: May 2005

Price: $24.95

Status: Available

Format: P/b, b/w photographs and line art 216 x 140mm, 240pp

Eminent US children's folklorist Dr Dorothy Howard came to Australia as an American Fulbright scholar in 1954 to study Australian children's folklore. Her work provides a rare insight into Australian children's folklore in this period and is now the subject of a book published by Museum Victoria entitled Child's Play: Dorothy Howard and the Folklore of Australian Children.

The book provides a record of Howard's 10 months in Australia when she collected and documented children's games and verbal lore in cities and country towns across Australia. Her meticulous work laid the foundation for research into children's folklore in this country.

Ten of Howard's original essays are reprinted in this title, along with three contemporary essays from other eminent academics.

The Museum Victoria publications are available by contacting the Production Studio on telephone number +613 8341 7574, fax number +613 8341 7573 or via email on publications@museum.vic.gov.au.

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