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New Releases by Peter Opie

Peter Opie is the author of Babies (1990), Children and Their Books (1989), The Singing Game (1988), A Nursery Companion (1980), Children's Games in Street and Playground (1979).

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Children and Their Books

release date: Jan 01, 1989
Children and Their Books
Discusses British children's books in the Opie collection

The Singing Game

release date: Jan 01, 1988
The Singing Game
Traces the histories of singing games such as ring a ring o' roses, oranges and lemons and others, and is an exposition both of the workings of folklore, and of the perennial ways of young children when left to play on their own. Each of the 150 games is described in historical detail.

A Nursery Companion

A Nursery Companion
Presents reproductions of a variety of early 19th-century children's books including rhymed alphabets, nursery rhymes, a pictorial grammar, limericks, and nonsense rhymes.

Three Centuries of Nursery Rhymes and Poetry for Children

The Classic Fairy Tales

The Classic Fairy Tales
Contains the earliest published text of these tales.

Children's Games in Streets and Playground

Children's Game in Street and Playground

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, by Iona and Peter Opie

The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes

The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book

The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book. Assembled by I. and P. Opie. With Additional Illustrations by Joan Hassall

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