The Treasures of Childhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Treasures of Childhood write by Iona Opie. This book was released on 1995. The Treasures of Childhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This survey covers virtually every aspect of childhood and every type of book, toy, game and diversion. Over a period of 40 years, Iona and Peter Opie assembled a collection of 20,000 rare children's books, comics and other printed material. The Opie's also have a substantial collection of toys and games, most of them in mint condition and often still in their original packaging. Text on the early children's books, the classic Victorian illustrated books and the magazines and comics is provided by Brian Alderson, while Peter Opie's widow, Iona, and their son, Robert, examine the non-book items via themes. Iona Opie, together with her late husband, has published such books on children's literature as The Oxford Dictionary of Nursey Rhymes and The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren.
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren write by Iona Opie. This book was released on 2000-08-31. The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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."
Tail Feathers from Mother Goose
Tail Feathers from Mother Goose - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tail Feathers from Mother Goose write by Iona Opie. This book was released on 1988. Tail Feathers from Mother Goose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An illustrated collection of traditional verses, most of which have never been published before.
Children and Their Books
Children and Their Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Children and Their Books write by Peter Opie. This book was released on 1989. Children and Their Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays by twenty leading scholars applauds the Opies' work in this field while exploring many topics, from the behavior of children in early modern England and the development of French fairy tales and nursery rhymes, to the work of classic authors such as Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Grahame, Beatrix Potter, and J.R.R. Tolkien and some diaries and magazines written by children.
Magical Tales
Magical Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magical Tales write by Carolyne Larrington. This book was released on 2013. Magical Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A faun carrying an umbrella; a hobbit who lives in a hole; a mysterious name - Lyra; an ill-treated schoolboy with a scar and a secret. Children's fantasy books often begin with resonant images. However, they also begin in an author's reading practices. How do children's authors incorporate myths and legends into their work? And how do myths and legends change as a result? In this richly illustrated collection of essays a team of academic experts trace the magical tales from Norse myth, Arthurian legend and medieval literature which have inspired the finest writers for children, including C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Alan Garner. Drawing on collections of manuscripts and rare books in the Bodleian Library, additional chapters put the spotlight on spell books, grimoires and books that do magic, as well as exploring stunning examples of pop-up books, harlequinades and concertina panoramas from the Opie Collection of Children's Literature.Other writers under discussion include children's authors of the Victorian era, such as George MacDonald, Rudyard Kipling and E. Nesbit, and twentieth-century writers Susan Cooper, Diana Wynne Jones and Philip Pullman. Through wide-ranging analysis these essays show how literature and tales from the Middle Ages and earlier still have been reinterpreted for each generation and continue to have a profound impact on writers of fantasy books for children today.
