The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren

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."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 08/31/2000
ISBN: 9780940322691
Pages: 488
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.01w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 70