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Three Centuries of Nursery Rhymes and Poetry for Children: [catalogue Of] an Exhibition Held at the National Book League, May 1973;

Literature & Fiction

Opie, Iona Archibald

Opie, Peter

National Book League (Great Britain)

Poetry

London: Oxford University Press

Three centuries of nursery rhymes and poetry for children

J. G. Schiller

I Saw Esau

Children's Books

Demco Media

Babies: An Unsentimental Anthology

History & Criticism

John Murray Pubs Ltd

Perhaps this book should come with a warning to parents: within these pages, children deliberately scare each other, ritually hurt each other, take foolish risks, promote fights, and play ten against one. Yet throughout, they consistently observe their own sense of fair play. Through the 1960s, Iona and Peter Opie did an exhaustive survey of the rough-and-tumble games that children actually play--normally out of sight, as opposed to formal sports or games supervised by parents--between roughly six and twelve years. The result was their classic work, Children's Games in Street and Playground. To aid a clear and lively presentation of their remarkable study, the original single book has here been divided into two volumes. Both record games played by 10,000 children from the Shetland Isles to the Channel Islands, though most come from big cities such as London, Bristol, and Glasgow. The books include many favorites, such as "The Dreaded Lurgi"; "What's the Time Mr. Wolf?"; "Stuck in the Mud," and "British Bulldog." Each game--more than 125--is described in detail, including many rhymes and sayings, regional variations, and historical notes. The children of the 1960s, the Opies noted, are often thought "to be incapable of self-organization, and to have become addicted to spectator amusements," to the extent that adults must be relied on to provide play materials, ideas, and time to play with them. The same attitudes are still widespread today, with our concerns about television and computer games and the middle-class parental impulse to fill children's days with organized classes and play dates. There are important lessons in this book about giving children the time and physical space they need to learn how to be themselves with other children.

Children's Games in Street and Playground: Chasing, Catching, Seeking

Sports & Outdoors

Floris Books

Records games played in the street, park, playground and wasteland of more than 10,000 children from the Shetland Isles to the Channel Islands. This volume focuses on games involving seeking, hunting, racing, duelling, exerting, daring, guessing, acting and pretending.

Children's Games in Street and Playground: Hunting, Racing, Duelling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, Pretending

Examines the Opie Collection of rare books, toys, and games

Treasures of Childhood: Books, Toys, and Games from the Opie Collection

Opie, Robert

Alderson, Brian

Arcade Pub

This survey covers virtually every aspect of childhood and every type of book, toy, game and diversion. Over a period of 40 years, Iona and Peter Opie assembled a collection of 20,000 rare children's books, comics and other printed material. The Opie's also have a substantial collection of toys and games, most of them in mint condition and often still in their original packaging. Text on the early children's books, the classic Victorian illustrated books and the magazines and comics is provided by Brian Alderson, while Peter Opie's widow, Iona, and their son, Robert, examine the non-book items via themes. Iona Opie, together with her late husband, has published such books on children's literature as "The Oxford Dictionary of Nursey Rhymes" and "The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren".

The Treasures of Childhood: Books, Toys, and Games from the Opie Collection

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Pavilion Books Ltd.

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