Item #2331126 The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren [School Children]. Iona Opie, Peter.

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren [School Children]

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1960. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #2331126

Second printing. Jacket rubbed, tear along bottom edge of rear jacket panel.

xviii, 417 pp. 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."

Price: $65.00

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