| I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book Contributor(s): Opie, Iona (Editor), Opie, Peter (Editor), Sendak, Maurice (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0763664014 ISBN-13: 9780763664015 Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA) OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Classics - Juvenile Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore - Anthologies - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2013363733 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 7.3" (0.60 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The mood is insouciant glee. A treasure. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. That's what children chant when they are being teased; it's what their parents chanted, and their grandparents and their great-grandparents before them. Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations of schoolchildren -- more than one hundred and seventy rhymes ranging from insults and riddles to tongue twisters, jeers, and jump-rope rhymes. With Iona Opie's introduction and detailed notes and Maurice Sendak's remarkable pictures -- vignettes, sequences, and full-page paintings both wickedly funny and comically sad -- here is a book that deserves a place among the classic texts of childhood. |