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Material Type: | Juvenile audience |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Iona Archibald Opie; Peter Opie; Maurice Sendak |
ISBN: | 0763611999 9780763611996 |
OCLC Number: | 45586588 |
Notes: | Original edition: I saw Esau : traditional rhymes of youth. London, Williams and Northgate, 1947. |
Description: | 160 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm |
Contents: | Beginning of term -- "Esau" and other dramas -- Characters -- Nonsense -- Insults -- Retaliation -- Reality -- Graces -- Riddles -- More characters -- School law -- Narratives -- Teasing and repartee -- Counting-off rhymes -- Game rhymes -- Guile-malicious -- Guile-innocent -- More insults -- Still more characters -- Verbal fun -- Book protection -- Book desecration -- Mock scholastic -- On some famous teachers -- Lamentation -- Reproachfulness -- Seasonal -- Contempt -- Incantation -- Lullabies-adolescent style -- End of term. |
Responsibility: | edited by Iona and Peter Opie ; illustrated by Maurice Sendak. |
Abstract:
A collection of rhymes and riddles traditionally passed on orally from child to child.
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