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I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
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I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book Hardcover - 2012

by Iona Opie (Editor); Peter Opie (Editor); Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)


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"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me." That's what children chant when they are being teased; it's what their parents chanted, and probably their grandparents before them. Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations of schoolchildren--more than 170 selections ranging from insults and riddles to jeers and jump-rope rhymes. With Iona Opie's introduction and detailed notes and Maurice Sendak's remarkable pictures--vignettes, sequences, and full-page paintings both wickedly funny and comically sad--it offers knowledge and entertainment to all who open it.

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  • Title I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
  • Author Iona Opie (Editor); Peter Opie (Editor); Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Candlewick Press (MA), U.S.A.
  • Date 2012-11-13
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780763659493 / 0763659495
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.4 x 5.3 x 1.1 in (18.80 x 13.46 x 2.79 cm)
  • Ages 07 to 10 years
  • Grade levels 2 - 5
  • Library of Congress subjects Children's poetry, English, English poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013363733
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Maurice Sendak has created texts and illustrations for more than seventy books, which have sold millions of copies around the world. He has won numerous awards, including a Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award for his body of work. He lives in New England. Maurice Sendak has created texts and illustrations for more than seventy books, which have sold millions of copies around the world. He has won numerous awards, including a Caldecott Medal for WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award for his body of work. He lives in New England.
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Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2012. 160 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 20 cm. Original edition first published by William and Northgate Ltd., London, 1947. Tight, clean copy. First edition thus. Fine DJ. A collection of rhymes and riddles traditionally passed on orally from child to child. CONTENTS: Introduction; Beginning of term; "Esau" and other dramas; Characters; Nonsense; Insults; Retaliation; Reality; Graces; Riddles; More Characters; Teasing and repartee; Counting-out rhymes; Game rhymes; Guile, malicious; Guile, innocent; More insults; Still more characters; Verbal fun; Book protection; Book desecration; Mock scholastic; On some famous teachers; Lamentation; Reproachfulness; Seasonal; Contempt; Incantation; Lullabies, adolescent style; End of term; Notes. . 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Sendak, Maurice. 8vo.
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