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A Dictionary of Superstitions (Oxford Paperback Reference)

2 reviews

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

Why are Four-Leaf Clovers Lucky?
According to _A Dictionary of Superstitions_, the answer to that one goes back to 1507. The book is filled with page after page of the interesting stories behind close to any superstition one could imagine. As its title suggests, the superstitions are presented in a dictionary format, something that I found very helpful. The definitions include--to different extents--histories, dates, ...

The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book

2 reviews
Iona Opie, Peter Opie

Oxford University Press, USA, 1964

For teachers not children
This book has the most wonderful traditional verses and the traditional woodcuts are fascinating. It also has descriptions of hand movements and other traditional actions that accompany the rhymes. A wonderful resource for a teacher or educator. If you are, however, buying the book for a child, this book is not suitable. The texts written in a small font are crowded together and the illustrations ...

The Oxford Book of Children's Verse

1 review

Oxford University Press, USA, 1973

Great poetry selection
This book has a large selection of wonderful poems. Some are funny, some are touching, and all of them were enjoyable to my children.

The Best of Shakespeare: Retellings of 10 Classic Plays (The Iona and Peter Opie Library of Children's ...

3 reviews
E. Nesbit

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

Children will now understand Shakepeare!
Edith Nesbit is a wonderful writer, who keeps the integrity of the Shakespeare plays, and makes them understandable to young readers. I read these stories to my boys, who love to hear all the tales of sword fights, king and queens, difficult lives, funny situations, and times of long ago. For me, it has been a great overview of famous Shakespeare plays that seem to complicated to read through in ...

The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes

5 reviews

Oxford University Press, 1997

A must for anyone interested in NRs and their origin
This is the seminal publication on nursery rhymes, IMO. The Opies have been collecting information about nursery rhymes for more than 50 years. The second edition of their OD of NR was published last year (1997) and is greatly updated on the first. It includes indepth analysis of over 550 nursery rhymes. I've been unable to find a NS of my knowledge that isn't included in there. It makes a ...

My Very First Mother Goose

35 reviews

Candlewick, 1996

My very favorite Mother Goose book
Publisher's Weekly called this book "exuberant" and that's exactly the right word for it. Bright primary colors make up this book, and Rosemary Wells' adorable characters populate the rhymes. Unlike some Mother Goose books, this one is meaty -- it boasts 108 pages, with a rhyme on almost every page. That's a lot of nights of Mother Goose at bedtime. Nursery rhymes help build phonological ...

The Classic Fairy Tales

3 reviews
Iona Opie, Peter Opie

Oxford University Press, USA, 1980

Fairy tales as they were first printed in the English lang.
I first read this book in 1983, and was amazed with it then. It's unique and extremely interesting. Iona and Peter Opie have the original tales as first printed in the English language. Added to that is the history and the actual gruesome origins of what we now consider children's stories! For example, Sleeping Beauty is not awakened by a kiss. Her Prince Charming violates her while she ...

Humpty Dumpty: and Other Rhymes (My Very First Mother Goose)

11 reviews

Candlewick, 2001

Very special children's books
We have the board books (like this one), as well as the two large hardbound books. My children love them, especially my daughter age two, one of whose first words was "Winkie!" after the Wee Willie Winkie rhyme. I find the negative reviews of these books very puzzling -- don't the authors of those reviews have any imagination? Or are they just close-mindedly PC? Or maybe they just do not ...

Here Comes Mother Goose (My Very First Mother Goose)

12 reviews

Candlewick, 1999

Love it, love it, love it !!!
We bought this book for my son when he was around 15 months old. He would spend hours carrying this book from one person to the next, wanting it to be read over and over. The repetition, the rhyming, and the order of each chapter seemed to just resonate with him. He absolutely loved it and still does. He is almost five years old now and will still take it out of his collection for bedtime ...

Mother Goose's Little Treasures (My Very First Mother Goose)

2 reviews
Iona Opie

Candlewick, 2007

Great addition to a child's library
Mother Goose's Little Treasures, by Iona Opie and Rosemary Wells, isn't your mother's Mother Goose. The collection consists of twenty-two Mother Goose rhymes plucked from obscurity by the world's foremost Goose folklorist. The book's introduction bears a lovingly-crafted appearance, with an explanation of its origin. We learn the stories contained within are "the most mysterious fragments from ...

Adventures of the Rat Family (Iona and Peter Opie Library)

1 review
Jules Verne

Oxford University Press, USA, 1993

Another Jules Verne Treasure
Adventures of the Rat Family is one of Verne's most unusual stories, in which he diverged from his usual formula to write his only fairy tale and one of his few pure fantasies. First published in France over a century ago, it is now published in an elegant children's edition by Oxford University Press (72 pp., ...). Included are all 17 original color illustrations by Felician Myrbach-Rheinfeld, ...

Little Boy Blue: and Other Rhymes (My Very First Mother Goose)

2 reviews
Iona Opie

Candlewick, 1997

My one-year old loves this book!
This book of simple rhymes and funny pictures can be read over and over. My one year old laughs out load, even though we've read the book hundreds of times.

The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse (Oxford Books of Verse)

3 reviews

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

Oxford Book of Narrative Verse
Thus is a useful collection of longer poems for those in search of longer poems which are not generally found in anthologies.

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (New York Review Books Classics)

2 reviews
Iona Opie, Peter Opie

NYRB Classics, 2001

Rhymes and reasons
Most of the material for this book was gathered fifty years ago in British schools, but I'm sure readers in all countries, for all time, will find it amusing and revealing. When I'd finished it, I felt I had a greater insight into children's minds and concerns, which they express, of course, in the games they play and the rhymes they say. I felt at the same time great respect for children. For ...

The Singing Game (Oxford Paperbacks)
Iona Opie, Peter Opie

Oxford University Press, USA, 1988

This volume, based on thirty years of collecting and research by two pioneers in the field of children's lore and language, presents hundreds of singing and clapping games popular with children since the Middle Ages, including such favorites as "Pop Goes the Weasel," "Lazy Mary Will You Get Up?," "Skip to My Lou," "The Muffin Man," and "Ring a Ring o' Roses." Serving as an exposition of both the workings of folklore and the perennial ways of ...

I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book

3 reviews

Candlewick, 2000

I Saw Esau
A delightful book for kids of all ages! Each page of this book has delightful, light, charming prose. The illustrations by Maurice Sendak put the final touches on a lovely, well-bound volume of reading for a family to share or a child to escape to a cozy window-seat and read. I recommend this book for someone who wants to give a nice, lasting gift to a special child or friend.

Children's Games with Things: Marbles, Fivestones, Throwing and Catching, Gambling, Hopscotch, Chucking and ...
Iona Opie, Peter Opie

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

Iona Opie and the late Peter Opie have devoted their lives to the study of children. Now comes the final volume of their acclaimed trilogy on children's games. Together with Children's Games in Street & Playground (1969) and The Singing Game (1985), this volume completes the most comprehensive study this century. Based on thirty years of research, this intriguing volume focuses on games that use equipment of one kind or another--marbles, ...

Pussycat Pussycat: and other Rhymes (My Very First Mother Goose)

2 reviews
Iona Opie

Candlewick, 1997

Pussycat, Pussycat: And Other Rhymes
We were first given Pussycat, Pussycat and its companion, Wee Willie Winkie, as a baby shower present. From the moment our son first laid eyes on the books, he adored them. The illustrations, which feature kitties, bunnies, and other creatures, are colorful and enticing, and of course you can't go wrong with Mother Goose as the author! The text invites adult readers to sing songs, create ...

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