For teachers not children

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	• The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book Iona Opie, Peter Opie Oxford University Press, USA, 1964 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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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 are tiny.

Thorough

If you're looking for a book containing nursery rhymes outside of the norm, this book is for you. If you're not, don't buy this book. There are rhymes in here that I have never heard of. It is an interesting read, but not the classical children's nursery rhyme book I had in mind. The illustrations are in black and white and are very classical and old fashioned.

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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 ballads. The text is further enlivened by 600 illustrations, many of them eighteenth- and nineteenth-century woodcuts and engravings.