The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (Revised) (New York Review Books Classics) by Iona Opie & Peter Opie mary pope osborne --Christie Thomas

--Christie Thomas

A lonely woman is torn between the bonds of family and the potential of new love in this moving novel from the author of A Wrinkle in Time

Being a member of the Quimby family in the third grade is harder than Ramona expected

'[N]ested' poems are hidden inside larger poems like nesting dolls

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (Revised) (New York Review Books Classics) by Iona Opie & Peter Opie mary pope osborne --Christie ThomasFirst 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