Iona Opie, Author Oxford University Press, USA $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-19-811265-5
Opie eavesdropped on the morning playtime of British schoolchildren, jotting down their playground conversations, punchy rhymes, games, fights and sexual and scatological stories and jokes. Covering the period from 1978 to 1980, this record of her...
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Iona Opie, Author, Rosemary Wells, Illustrator , illus. by Rosemary Wells. Candlewick $17.99 (52p) ISBN 978-0-7636-3655-5
Opie and Wells depart from their previous two collections of well-known Mother Goose rhymes to venture to what Opie describes as “the far edge of Mother Goose’s realm” and there collect “the most mysterious fragments from our
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Iona Opie, Author, Ionie A. Opie, Author, Pauline Baynes, Illustrator Puffin Books $5.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-038582-3
Festooned with line illustrations, this collection of nursery rhymes gathered by the celebrated British folklorists was first published in 1963. All ages. (July)
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Iona Opie, Author, Robert Opie, With, Brian Alderson, With Arcade Publishing $40 (190p) ISBN 978-1-55970-047-4
This stately catalogue offers an enchanting view of the children's books and playthings amassed over 40 years by Iona and the late Peter Opie ( The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren ), well known for their seminal researches into children's...
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