The Treasures of Childhood

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Author: Iona Opie

Publisher: Pavilion Books, Limited

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9781857936247

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This survey covers virtually every aspect of childhood and every type of book, toy, game and diversion. Over a period of 40 years, Iona and Peter Opie assembled a collection of 20,000 rare children's books, comics and other printed material. The Opie's also have a substantial collection of toys and games, most of them in mint condition and often still in their original packaging. Text on the early children's books, the classic Victorian illustrated books and the magazines and comics is provided by Brian Alderson, while Peter Opie's widow, Iona, and their son, Robert, examine the non-book items via themes. Iona Opie, together with her late husband, has published such books on children's literature as The Oxford Dictionary of Nursey Rhymes and The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren.

The Opie Collection of Children's Literature

The Opie Collection of Children's Literature PDF

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Publisher: Umi

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13:

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Chiefly British children's books, from the earliest period to the present, collected by Iona and Peter Opie, and housed in the Bodleian Library of Oxford University. The collection contains more than 20,000 titles, organized into units by book type. The collection preserves nearly 1,100 chapbooks, battledores (two or three-page primers), and card-covered toy books; 4,000 comics, children's magazines, and penny dreadfuls (Victorian serials for children); and 12,000 bound volumes of children's stories and nursery rhymes, books on games and amusements, picture books, movable books, reversible books, rag books, miniatures, and other items. Some 800 titles included were published before 1800.

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren PDF

Author: Iona Opie

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2000-08-31

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780940322691

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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."

Children and Their Books

Children and Their Books PDF

Author: Peter Opie

Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13:

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This collection of essays by twenty leading scholars applauds the Opies' work in this field while exploring many topics, from the behavior of children in early modern England and the development of French fairy tales and nursery rhymes, to the work of classic authors such as Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Grahame, Beatrix Potter, and J.R.R. Tolkien and some diaries and magazines written by children.

Magical Tales

Magical Tales PDF

Author: Carolyne Larrington

Publisher: Bodleian Library

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781851242641

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A faun carrying an umbrella; a hobbit who lives in a hole; a mysterious name - Lyra; an ill-treated schoolboy with a scar and a secret. Children's fantasy books often begin with resonant images. However, they also begin in an author's reading practices. How do children's authors incorporate myths and legends into their work? And how do myths and legends change as a result? In this richly illustrated collection of essays a team of academic experts trace the magical tales from Norse myth, Arthurian legend and medieval literature which have inspired the finest writers for children, including C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Alan Garner. Drawing on collections of manuscripts and rare books in the Bodleian Library, additional chapters put the spotlight on spell books, grimoires and books that do magic, as well as exploring stunning examples of pop-up books, harlequinades and concertina panoramas from the Opie Collection of Children's Literature.Other writers under discussion include children's authors of the Victorian era, such as George MacDonald, Rudyard Kipling and E. Nesbit, and twentieth-century writers Susan Cooper, Diana Wynne Jones and Philip Pullman. Through wide-ranging analysis these essays show how literature and tales from the Middle Ages and earlier still have been reinterpreted for each generation and continue to have a profound impact on writers of fantasy books for children today.

I Saw Esau

I Saw Esau PDF

Author: Iona Opie

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780744521511

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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.

Here Comes Mother Goose

Here Comes Mother Goose PDF

Author: Iona Archibald Opie

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 1999-10-06

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780763606831

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Presents more than sixty traditional nursery rhymes, including "Old Mother Hubbard, " "I'm a Little Teapot, " and "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, " accompanied by illustrations of various animals.

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