| Description |
pages ; cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Beginning of term -- "Esau" and other dramas -- Characters -- Nonesense -- Insults -- Retaliation -- Reality -- Graces -- Riddles -- More Characters -- Teasing and repartee -- Counting-out rhymes -- Game rhymes -- Guile, malicious -- Guile, innocent -- More insults -- Still more characters -- Verbal fun -- Book protection -- Book desecration -- Mock scholastic -- On some famous teachers -- Lamentation -- Reproachfulness -- Seasonal -- Contempt -- Incantation -- Lullabies, adolescent style -- End of term -- Notes |
| Summary |
A collection of rhymes and riddles traditionally passed on orally from child to child |
| Subject |
Children's poetry, English.
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Folk poetry, English.
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Children's writings.
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English poetry.
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| Author |
Opie, Iona, 1923-2017.
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Opie, Peter.
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Sendak, Maurice, illustrator
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| LC no. |
91071845 |
| ISBN |
1564020460 |
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