Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (Revised)

Title: Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (Revised)
Author: Iona Opie
F: 1702449
ISBN: 9780940322691
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Published: 2000
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Revised
Number of Pages: 488
Section: Social Science | Children's Studies
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: 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."