I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
Iona Opie$11.90
$14.00
"The mood is insouciant glee. A treasure." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." That's what children chant when they are being teased; it's what their parents chanted, and their grandparents and their great-grandparents before them. Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations of schoolchildren -- more than one hundred and seventy rhymes ranging from insults and riddles to tongue twisters, jeers, and jump-rope rhymes. With Iona Opie's introduction and detailed notes and Maurice Sendak's remarkable pictures -- vignettes, sequences, and full-page paintings both wickedly funny and comically sad -- here is a book that deserves a place among the classic texts of childhood.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 11/30/2012
ISBN: 9780763664015
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.30h x 5.20w x 0.80d
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." That's what children chant when they are being teased; it's what their parents chanted, and their grandparents and their great-grandparents before them. Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations of schoolchildren -- more than one hundred and seventy rhymes ranging from insults and riddles to tongue twisters, jeers, and jump-rope rhymes. With Iona Opie's introduction and detailed notes and Maurice Sendak's remarkable pictures -- vignettes, sequences, and full-page paintings both wickedly funny and comically sad -- here is a book that deserves a place among the classic texts of childhood.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 11/30/2012
ISBN: 9780763664015
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.30h x 5.20w x 0.80d