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For nearly forty years Iona Opie worked with her late husband Peter on a notable series of books on the traditional lore of childhood. As part of the ...
By Iona and Peter Opie
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Traces the histories of singing games such as ring a ring o' roses, oranges and lemons and others, and is an exposition both of the workings of folklo...
These four bright board books, based on "My Very First Mother Goose", the award-winning classic, bring the timeless rhymes to the youngest children in...
Eight classic nursery rhymes are retold with colorful illustrations, including Wee Willie Winkie, Pat-a-cake, Jack and Jill, Star light, star bright, ...
This collection of fifty-nine poems spans six hundred years of literary tradition, from Chaucer to Auden, and includes such selections as Pope's "Rape...
Chasing, Catching, Seeking, Hunting, Racing, Duelling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, Pretending
Drawing from contributions of over 10,000 children from the streets, parks, playgrounds, and vacant lots of England, Scotland, and Wales, the Opies' c...
And Other Rhymes
These four traditional nursery rhymes have been carefully selected from the bestselling My Very First Mother Goose, the only book published in the las...
Books, Toys, and Games from the Opie Collection
Presents a social history of childhood through a collection of 20,000 rare books, comics, and other printed material, plus toys and games....
Chasing, Catching, Seeking
Perhaps this book should come with a warning to parents: within these pages, children deliberately scare each other, ritually hurt each other, take fo...
Marbles, Fivestones, Throwing and Catching, Gambling, Hopscotch, Chucking and Pitching, Ball-bouncing, Skipping, Tops and Tipcat
This final volume of the Opies' acclaimed trilogy deals with children's games that use equipment - such as marbles, skipping, fivestones, and ball-bou...
The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
A collection of rhymes that have been chanted by children for generations including rhymes of insult and retaliation, of teasing and repartee, rhymes ...
800 rhymes. 600 illustrations....
Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the National Book League, May 1973
A collection of familiar nursery rhymes includes action verses, poems about bedtime and animals, and other favorites. On board pages....
A collection of favorite rhymes found in folk literature and lesser known rhymes passed down in regional or family traditions....
A collection of nursery rhymes featuring such little-known characters as the wee melodie man and Handy Spandy, Mrs. Whirly and little bonny Button-cap...
Gathered
An Unsentimental Anthology