ABSTRACT
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.
