Divided into four sections, this anthology contains more than 60 of the most colourful and best-loved nursery rhymes, including "Humpty Dumpty" and "Hey Diddle, Diddle". These are illustrated with watercolour pictures of distinctive characters - rabbits, cats and mice - by Rosemary Wells.
This classic dictionary brings together over 500 nursery rhymes, songs, nonsense jingles, lullabies, and rhyming alphabets traditionally handed on to young children. All the items have been arranged alphabetically, from 'A was an apple-pie' to 'Yankee Doodle came to town' and include such favourites as 'A frog he would a-wooing go', 'Baa, baa, ...
Metal is the newest big trend, and crafters are hungry for ideas for using it in everything from jewellery and home decor to scrapbooking and mixed media art. In Metal Craft Discovery Workshop, the authors show easy ways to manipulate, emboss, twist and join metal without using complex soldering or traditional metalsmithing methods. They provide: ...
Divided into four sections, this treasury of over 55 favourite nursery rhymes is clearly presented in large, easy-to-read type, with pictures and one rhyme to a page.
The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book contains 800 nursery rhymes and ditties which are the heritage of our oral tradition. All the well-known rhymes are included as well as many rare ones. Special sections are devoted to lullabies and dandling rhymes, toe rhymes, catches, charms, traditional street cries, riddle verses, nursery maxims, and humorous ...
This book brings together the most notable verse that has been written for children over the past five hundred years. Based on a fresh examination of the sources of children's literature, the book contains more than three hundred poems by well over a hundred named authors (a fifth of them American) arranged chronologically, from Chaucer and ...
Did you know that it used to be the custom to fight at Scottish funerals until blood was drawn? If you've ever wanted the definitive answers on subjects such as black cats, magpies and spilt milk, look no further than this classic, critically acclaimed dictionary. Hundreds of superstitions and beliefs, including spells, cures, rituals, taboos, ...
We have all been enchanted, enthralled and even terrified by fairy tales, and no child is brought up without learning the story of Cinderella or Little Red Riding Hood. The most popular tales have long histories, over which successive editors have not only shortened and sentimentalized them but also slanted them according to the demands of time. ...
This study looks at the superstitions, practices and beliefs, rhymes and chants, catcalls and retorts, stock jokes, ruderies, riddles, epithets, nicknames and juvenile slang that continue to flourish among children in England, Scotland and Wales. First published in 1959, it discloses a wealth of traditional lore and language. Iona and Peter Opie ...
Frederick Opie's culinary history is an insightful portrait of the social and religious relationship between people of African descent and their cuisine. Beginning with the Atlantic slave trade and concluding with the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Opie composes a global history of African American foodways and the concept of soul ...
This book presents an entertaining social history of childhood through its literature and artifacts. The treasures themselves come from a collection assembled by Iona and Peter Opie as an accompaniment to their work in children's literature. 200 color and 40 black-and-white illustrations.
This nursery rhyme book includes "Humpty Dumpty" and is one section of the "My Very First Mother Goose" anthology which contains best-loved nursery rhymes and which was shortlisted for the Illustrated Book of the Year in 1996.
This record of children's outdoor games played in the street, park, playground, or wasteland is drawn from the contributions of 10,000 children in England, Scotland and Wales. It reveals that the games children take pleasure in when out on their own are usually those learnt from each other - not from adults. They are games in which children may ...
In 1999, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London installed a Chihuly Chandelier in its main entrance hall. It is the first major artwork by Chihuly to be permanently installed in the UK. As a result, from 21 June to 21 October 2001, an extensive exhibition of Chihuly's art was shown at the V&A. This is a powerful book that has been crafted to ...
A series of evocative images from every walk of life - including pictures from magazines, song sheets and advertising - create the flavour of the 1950s. Opie also compiled the successful Wartime Scrapbook.'
The `Swinging Sixties' were a concoction of many things that brought Britain to the forefront - England winning the World Cup in 1966, mini skirts and mini cars, the Beatles and Twiggy. This was the permissive decade when the contraceptive pill became available, Lady Chatterley's Lover won a famous obscenity trial and Private Eye and Oz magazine ...
A study of vascular biology. It presents a detailed account of cardiac cellular physiology, oxidative metabolism, coronary flow and ventricular function, and traces the cellular events involved in congestive heart failure, angina pectoris, acute myocardial infarction, myocardial reperfusion and arrhythmia development. New to this edition are: an ...
"Sweet Memories" is a wonderful nostalgic journey through the development of British confectionery. Fry's Five Boys, Rowntree's Fruit Gums, Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts, Quality Street, Murray Mints, Dairy Milk, Black Magic: these are a selection of the evocative names from more than a hundred years of our favourite confectionery. The book, first ...
This book now comes with an online resource included. The new 6th Edition continues to be the definitive pocket-sized guide on the 'hows' and 'whys' of cardiovascular drugs. It provides in-depth information on all of the drug classes used to treat heart disease, and covers drug use, new drug classes, drug use for single and multiple problem ...
Depression affects a very many people, either directly or when depression strikes a friend or family member. Windy Dryden has helped thousands overcome negative emotions through his popular books underpinned by Rational Emotional Behavioural Therapy. Now, with Sarah Opie, he turns this tried and tested approach to help convert the unhealthy ...
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