'Real Keen Baked Bean!' by June Factor, illustrated by Annie Marshall

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A sharp, chaotic little archive of Australian playground culture—counting-out rhymes, insults, jump-rope chants, the kind of verses that mutate as they move between kids.

First published in the late 1980s, when June Factor was documenting schoolyard folklore before it disappeared or got sanitised, the collection sits somewhere between anthropology and mischief. Annie Marshall’s drawings are loose, expressive, a bit unhinged, matching the rhythm and bite of the material rather than softening it.

It’s funny, crude, inventive, and occasionally cruel in the way playground culture often is.

Paperback, Hodder & Stoughton (1989). Light wear; clean internally.