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The People in the Playground

By: Iona Archibald Opie,Iona Opie

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For nearly forty years Iona Opie worked with her late husband Peter on a notable series of books on the traditional lore of childhood. As part of the fieldwork from 1970 onwards, she visited the local school playground every week. The children accepted Mrs Opie as a regular feature of the playground, a harmless collector of jokes and games. Her aim, however, was to provide the living context of school-lore, rather than the lore itself. She achieved this by writing down events exactly as they happened, and conversationsexactly as they were spoken. The result is a startlingly honest portrait of children at play, at once charming and hilarious, alarming and poignant, and full of infectious vitality. We see games seasons as they come and go, watch ephemeral amusements being devised and forgotten, and see how school-lore evolves and is transmitted. Much fundamental human behaviour is recoreded: the differences in attitudes between the sexes; the boys' irrevocable devotion to fighting andfootball, and their innate kindness; the art of storytelling; the friendships and enmities; the excited interest in sex; the diversity of characters; and above all, the hilarity which pervades the playground, creating entertainment out of trivialities. In the uninhibited language and astonishing inventiveness chronicled in these pages we recognize the games and jokes of previous generations; at once a revelation and a reassurance of continuity, this book offers a unique insight into the world of the child.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0192853015

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9780192853011

Here Comes Mother Goose

By: Iona Archibald Opie

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Here Comes Mother Goose

By: Iona Archibald Opie

Presents more than sixty traditional nursery rhymes, including "Old Mother Hubbard, " "I'm a Little Teapot, " and "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, " accompanied by illustrations of various animals.

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116

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Candlewick Press

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0763606839

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9780763606831

My Very First Mother Goose

By: Iona Archibald Opie,Rosemary Wells

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My Very First Mother Goose

By: Iona Archibald Opie,Rosemary Wells

Charming watercolor illustrations enhance a delightful collection of sixty classic Mother Goose rhymes, including "Hey Diddle, Diddle," "Pat-a-Cake," "Little Jack Horner," and many others.

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1564026205

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9781564026200

Mother Goose's Little Treasures

By: Iona Archibald Opie

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Mother Goose's Little Treasures

By: Iona Archibald Opie

This enchanting collection showcases rare Mother Goose nursery rhymes, breathing new life into these old favorites! 75,000 first printing.

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076363655X

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9780763636555

Little Boy Blue

And Other Rhymes

By: Iona Archibald Opie,Rosemary Wells

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Little Boy Blue

And Other Rhymes

By: Iona Archibald Opie,Rosemary Wells

These four traditional nursery rhymes have been carefully selected from the bestselling My Very First Mother Goose, the only book published in the last decade to feature in The Bookseller's ten Picture Books of the Millennium. Presented in sturdy and appealing board books, these best-loved rhymes have been passed on from generation to generation and are here in the ideal format to be encountered at the earliest possible moment and savoured for an entire lifetime. Rosemary Wells' wonderful watercolour pictures create an engaging and exuberant world filled with distinctive characters - rabbits and cats and mice - guaranteed to delight the youngest child.

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0744588499

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9780744588491

Mother Goose's Little Treasures

By: Iona Archibald Opie

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Mother Goose's Little Treasures

By: Iona Archibald Opie

A collection of nursery rhymes featuring such little-known characters as the wee melodie man and Handy Spandy, Mrs. Whirly and little bonny Button-cap.

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Walker

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1406310247

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9781406310245

The Treasures of Childhood

Books, Toys, and Games from the Opie Collection

By: Iona Archibald Opie,Robert Opie,Brian Alderson

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The Treasures of Childhood

Books, Toys, and Games from the Opie Collection

By: Iona Archibald Opie,Robert Opie,Brian Alderson

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

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190

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Arcade Pub

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1559700475

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9781559700474

The People in the Playground

By: Iona Archibald Opie,Iona Opie

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By: Iona Archibald Opie,Iona Opie

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Oxford University Press, USA

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I Saw Esau

The Schoolchild's Pocket Book

By: Iona Opie,Peter Opie,Maurice Sendak

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I Saw Esau

The Schoolchild's Pocket Book

By: Iona Opie,Peter Opie,Maurice Sendak

A collection of rhymes that have been chanted by children for generations including rhymes of insult and retaliation, of teasing and repartee, rhymes for skipping and for counting out, riddles, tongue-twisters, narratives and nonsense.

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0744521513

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9780744521511

The Very Best Mother Goose Book Tower

By: Iona Archibald Opie,Rosemary Wells

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The Very Best Mother Goose Book Tower

By: Iona Archibald Opie,Rosemary Wells

A collection of familiar nursery rhymes includes action verses, poems about bedtime and animals, and other favorites. On board pages.

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Candlewick Press (MA)

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076364983X

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9780763649838

Children's Games in Street and Playground

Chasing, Catching, Seeking

By: Iona Archibald Opie,Peter Opie

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Children's Games in Street and Playground

Chasing, Catching, Seeking

By: Iona Archibald Opie,Peter Opie

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. And yet throughout, they consistently observe their own sense of fair play.'During the past fifty years, shelf-loads of books have been written instructing children in the games they ought to play -- and some even instructing adults on how to instruct children in the games they ought to play -- but few attempts have been made to record the games children in fact play.'This was Iona and Peter Opie's pertinent observation in 1969, and it was this gap that they sought to fill with their exhaustive survey, through the 1960s, of the games that children 'in fact play' aged roughly between six and twelve years, and when outdoors -- and usually out of sight.The Opies weren't interested in formal games and sports supervised by parents or teachers. What excited them were the rough-and-tumble games for which, as one child described, 'nothing is needed but the players themselves.' They were also anxious that, in their meticulous recording of the games, the spirit of the play, the zest, variety and disorderliness, should not be lost.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 been divided roughly into two. Both volumes record games played in the street, park, playground and wasteland of more than 10,000 children from the Shetland Isles to the Channel Islands, although the majority of the information comes from children living in big cities such as London, Liverpool, Bristol and Glasgow.This second volume focuses on games involving seeking, hunting, racing, duelling, exerting, daring, guessing, acting and pretending. More than 85 games are described in detail including the rhymes and saying children repeat while play them, together with the different names under which they are played. Brief historical notes are also included where relevant.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 our children's days with organised classes and play dates. 'However much children may need looking after, they are also people going about their own business within their own society.' There are important lessons to be learned from this book about giving children the time and physical space to be themselves with other children.

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0863156665

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9780863156663

Book's by Iona Archibald Opie

The People in the Playground

The People in the Playground

Here Comes Mother Goose

Here Comes Mother Goose

My Very First Mother Goose

My Very First Mother Goose

Mother Goose's Little Treasures

Mother Goose's Little Treasures

Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue

Mother Goose's Little Treasures

Mother Goose's Little Treasures

The Treasures of Childhood

The Treasures of Childhood

The People in the Playground

The People in the Playground

I Saw Esau

I Saw Esau

The Very Best Mother Goose Book Tower

The Very Best Mother Goose Book Tower

Children's Games in Street and Playground

Children's Games in Street and Playground

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