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1	The Classic Fairy Tales more books like this by Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Opie 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. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.90! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes more books like this by Iona A. Opie (Editor), Peter Opie (Editor) 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, ... see all copies from $4.36! new only from $25.97! \| first editions
3	I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book more books like this by Iona A Opie (Editor), Peter Opie (Editor), Maurice Sendak (Illustrator) This collection of verse offers 170 rhymes: rhymes of insult and retaliation; of teasing and repartee; rhymes for skipping and for counting out; riddles, tounge-twisters, narratives and nonsense - rhymes that have been chanted by children for generations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Lore & Language of Schoolchildren more books like this by Opie 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 ... see all copies from $5.20! new only from $9.45! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Oxford Book of Children's Verse more books like this by Iona A Opie (Editor), Peter Opie (Editor) 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 ... see all copies from $3.24! new only from $195.95! \| first editions
6	The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book more books like this by Iona A Opie (Editor), Peter Opie (Editor), Joan Hassall (Illustrator) 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 ... see all copies from $2.21! new only from $27.96! \| first editions
7	The Singing Game more books like this by Iona Opie, Peter Opie This volume is based on 30 years of collecting and research, and traces the histories of singing games such as ring a ring o' roses and oranges and lemons. It is an exposition both of the workings of folklore and of the play habits of young children. Each game is described in detail with reference to its history and its present form. Fashionable ... see all copies from $13.20! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
8	The Puffin Book of Nursery Rhymes more books like this by Peter Opie, Iona A Opie, Pauline Baynes (Illustrator) This collection of nursery rhymes are a gathering from the memories of grandmothers and the byways of folk literature. As well as containing the familiar jingles, it introduces a number of traditional rhymes which have previously been known only locally or in individual families. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
9	Nursery Companion more books like this by Iona Opie, Ioan A Opie, Peter Opie Presents reproductions of a variety of early 19th-century children's books including rhymed alphabets, nursery rhymes, a pictorial grammar, limericks, and nonsense rhymes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.50! \| first editions
10	The Oxford Book of Children's Verse more books like this by Peter Opie (Editor), Iona Opie (Editor) This anthology brings together the verse written for children over a period of five hundred years. It contains more than 300 poems written by 123 authors, and includes the rhymed precepts of medieval times, the admonitory verse of Elizabethan Puritans, the inspirational verse of Blake and Christopher Smart. This anthology also includes the ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $59.95!
11	The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse more books like this by Iona Opie (Editor), Peter Opie (Editor) An anthology of 59 poems, most of which are given in their entirety, representing narrative verse from Chaucer to Auden. The editors have chosen poems that tell a straightforward and complete story or are, like Chaucer's "Death and the Three Revellers", stories within a story, or which are episodes from longer poems complete in themselves. Thus, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions
12	Tail Feathers from Mother Goose: The Opie Rhyme Book more books like this by Peter Opie (Editor), Iona A Opie (Editor) An illustrated collection of traditional verses, most of which have never been published before. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse more books like this by Peter Opie (Editor), Iona Opie (Editor) This is a story-book in verse, universal in its appeal and representative of a literary tradition from Chaucer to Auden. Its tales are of various kinds - romantic, humorous, ghostly, and gory, written at any time over the past six hundred years. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.48! \| first editions
14	Children's Games in Street and Playground: Chasing, Catching, Seeking, Hunting, Racing, Duelling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, Pretendin more books like this by Iona Opie, Peter Opie 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 ... see all copies from $19.55! first editions
15 view cover	Children's Games with Things more books like this by Iona Opie, Peter Opie Concluding a trilogy of books on children's games, this is a comprehensive study of the nature of children's play. Following "Children's Games in Street and Playground" (1969), and "The Singing Game" (1985), and based on the surveys of the 1950s to 1970s, the present volume deals with children's games that use equipment of one kind or another, ... see all copies from $14.64!
16 view cover	Nursery Rhymes, the Opie Book of more books like this by Iona Opie, Ionie A. Opie, Peter Opie A colletion of favorite rhymes found in folk literature and lesser known rhymes passed down in regional or family traditions. see all copies from $2.12!
17 view cover	Childrens Games in Street and Playground: Volume 1: Chasing, Catching, Seeking more books like this by Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Mason Opie Perhaps this book should come with a warning to parents: within these pages, children deliberately scare each other, ritually hurt each other, take foolish risks, promote fights, and play ten against one. And yet throughout, they consistently observe their own sense of fair play. 'During the past fifty years, shelf-loads of books have been written ... see all copies from $15.41! new only from $15.41!
18	Children's games more books like this by Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Opie see all copies from $11.38! first editions
19	Three centuries of nursery rhymes and poetry for children: [catalogue of] an exhibition held at the National Book League, May 1973 more books like this by Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Opie, National Book League (Great Britain) see all copies from $10.00! signed copies \| first editions
20	The Puffin book of nursery rhymes more books like this by Iona Opie Opie, Peter see all copies from $3.75!
21 view cover	Childrens Games in Street and Playground: Volume 2: Hunting, Racing, Duelling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, Pretending more books like this by Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Mason Opie Perhaps this book should come with a warning to parents: within these pages, children deliberately scare each other, ritually hurt each other, take foolish risks, promote fights, and play ten against one. And yet throughout, they consistently observe their own sense of fair play. 'During the past fifty years, shelf-loads of books have been written ... see all copies from $15.33! new only from $15.33!
22	The lore and language of school-children more books like this by Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Opie see all copies from $6.50!

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