{"product_id":"the-lore-and-language-of-schoolchildren-revised-new-york-review-books-classics-by-iona-opie-peter-opie","title":"The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (Revised) (New York Review Books Classics) by Iona Opie \u0026 Peter Opie","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lore and Language of Schoolchildren\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The Opies, professors of literature and essentially folklorists, did something path-breaking: they observed children and took their play seriously... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lore and Language of Schoolchildren\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ereminds us that children are their own beings who create and navigate complicated social worlds, and the way they do so is worthy of respect and understanding.\" --Hilary Levey Friedman, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrain, Child\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMagazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIona\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1923-2017) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Opie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1918-1982) began their research together in 1944. Fifteen years later, they published\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lore and Language of Schoolchildren\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand took their places as, to quote\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \"the supreme archivists of the folklore movement.\" Since that time, they have jointly published\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, The Classic Fairy Tales,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eChildren's Game in Street and Playground.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAfter Peter Opie's death in 1982, Iona Opie carried on with their work under his name as well as her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarina Warner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e's studies of religion, mythology, and fairy tales include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Beast to the Blonde\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStranger Magic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (National Book Critics Circle Award for Literary Criticism; Truman Capote Prize). A Fellow of the British Academy, Warner is also a professor of English and creative writing at Birkbeck College, London. In 2015 she was given the Holberg Prize.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePub Date: \u003cspan\u003eAugust 31, 2000\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1.2\" H x 8.02\" L x 5.01\" W\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e488 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003epaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966560923834,"sku":"9780940322691","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/81ak8nWOJSL._SL1500.jpg?v=1751739761","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/the-lore-and-language-of-schoolchildren-revised-new-york-review-books-classics-by-iona-opie-peter-opie","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}