Iona Opie is the author of The Oxford Book of Children's Verse (1973), My Very First Mother Goose Book (2005), The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, Edited by Iona and Peter Opie (1952), Humpty Dumpty and Other Rhymes Compiled Text by Iona Opie; Illustrations by Rosemary Wells (1986), Tail Feathers from Mother Goose (1988).