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...
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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." Booknews Reprint of the 1960 Oxford U. Press of this classic study (which is cited in , with some brief, more recent prefatory and introductory material. In the 1950s, the Opies collected schoolyard poems, riddles, and chants from some 5,000 children attending 70 schools in different parts of England, Scotland, and Walesopening adult ears to this rich heritage in a systematic way for the first time. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
IntroductionPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of Distribution Maps1Introductory12Just for Fun173Wit and Repartee414Guile575Riddles736Parody and Impropriety877Topical Rhymes988Code of Oral Legislation1219Nicknames and Epithets15410Unpopular Children: Jeers and Torments17511Half-Belief20612Children's Calendar23213Occasional Customs29314Some Curiosities30615Friendship and Fortune32316Partisanship34317The Child and Authority36118Pranks377Geographical Index393First Line Index401General Index409
\ Booknews Reprint of the 1960 Oxford U. Press of this classic study (which is cited in , with some brief, more recent prefatory and introductory material. In the 1950s, the Opies collected schoolyard poems, riddles, and chants from some 5,000 children attending 70 schools in different parts of England, Scotland, and Walesopening adult ears to this rich heritage in a systematic way for the first time. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
