Books, Books, Books, Books Review of "Captain Cook Chased a Crook: Children's Folklore in Australia" by June Factor. Victoria: Australia, 1988

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Published: Mar 20, 1989

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Brian Sutton-Smith

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For those of us who work at Children's Folklore, June Factor has now entered our small band of "mutant" scholars which includes such names as Newell, Gomme, Douglas, Brewster, McDowell, McCosh, the Opies and the Knapps. Apart from the first two, who emerged from a nineteenth century paradigm about origins and survivals, none of the rest were anymore predictable than is Factor herself, though she spends honorable time paying tribute to her precursors in Australia, the equally anomalous, Dorothy Howard, Ian Turner, and Wendy Lowenstein. Some of the earlier children's folklorists were novelists primarily, some schoolteachers, though the more recent tendency has been for them to be professors, and Factor's book is heavily drenched in footnotes from multiple sources. In many ways her book is as much about the state of children's folklore in the Western World as it is about children's folklore in Australia. One has to look to her other popular works: "Unreal, Banana Peel" (1986) "All right, Vegemite" (1985) and "Far Out Brussel Sprout" (1983) and her "Australian Children's Folklore publications" (1986) for the dinkum stuff.

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Vol. 11 No. 2 (1989)
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