Books written by Peter Opie
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The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
and when anyone follows their gaze , to chant : Made you look , made you stare , Made the barber cut your hair . Cut it long , cut it short , Cut it with a knife and fork . Alton , Bath , Enfield , Manchester , Oxted , Shrewsbury .
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I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
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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The Singing Game
This volume, based on thirty years of collecting and research by two pioneers in the field of children's lore and language, presents hundreds of singing and clapping games popular with...
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I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
A collection of rhymes and riddles traditionally passed on orally from child to child. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
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Children and Their Books: A Celebration of the Work of Iona and Peter Opie
This extensively illustrated collection of essays by twenty leading scholars explores a wide range of topics from the behavior of children in early modern England and the development of French...
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Children's Games in Street and Playground: Hunting, Racing, Duelling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, Pretending
Few attempts have been made to record the games children in fact play.
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Children's Games in Street and Playground: Chasing, Catching, Seeking
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.
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Children's Games in Street and Playground: Chasing, Catching, Seeking, Hunting, Racing, Duelling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, Pretending
An account of the games which children between the ages of six and twelve invent or perform out-of-doors for their own enjoyment
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The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse
This is a story-book, universal in its appeal and representative of a literary tradition from Chaucer to Auden.
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I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
A collection of rhymes and riddles traditionally passed on orally from child to child.
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I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
A collection of rhymes and riddles traditionally passed on orally from child to child.
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The Oxford Book of Children's Verse
An anthology of more than 300 children's poems by 123 authors written over a period of 500 years.
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The Classic Fairy Tales
SUMMARY: Presents the texts of twenty-four well-known fairy tales as they were first printed in English and summarizes the history of each title, especially from the textual point of view.