| The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren Revised Edition Contributor(s): Opie, Iona (Author), Opie, Peter (Author), Warner, Marina (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0940322692 ISBN-13: 9780940322691 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2000 Annotation: First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's "The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren" is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Going outside the nursery, with its assortment of parent-approved entertainments, to observe and investigate the day-to-day creative intelligence and activities of children, the Opies bring to life the rites and rhymes, jokes and jeers, laws, games, and secret spells of what has been called "the greatest of savage tribes, and the only one which shows no signs of dying out." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Children's Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Literary Criticism | Children's & Young Adult Literature |
| Dewey: 398.008 |
| LCCN: 00069102 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.01" W x 8.02" (0.99 lbs) 488 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Going outside the nursery, with its assortment of parent-approved entertainments, to observe and investigate the day-to-day creative intelligence and activities of children, the Opies bring to life the rites and rhymes, jokes and jeers, laws, games, and secret spells of what has been called "the greatest of savage tribes, and the only one which shows no signs of dying out." |