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I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book

I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book Hard cover - 1992

by Opie, Iona & Peter

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover

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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 1992. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 88x17x124. Sendak, Maurice. Second printing. Minor tear along top edge of rear jacket panel. 1992 Hard Cover. 160 pp. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." That's what children chant when they are being teased; it's what their parents chanted, and their grandparents and their great-grandparents before them. Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations of schoolchildren — more than one hundred and seventy rhymes ranging from insults and riddles to tongue twisters, 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 — here is a book that deserves a place among the classic texts of childhood.
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  • Title I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book
  • Author Opie, Iona & Peter
  • Illustrator Sendak, Maurice
  • Binding Hard Cover
  • Edition 2nd Printing
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Candlewick Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Date 1992
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2329340
  • ISBN 9781564020468 / 1564020460
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.67 x 5.61 x 1.22 in (19.48 x 14.25 x 3.10 cm)
  • Ages 06 to 09 years
  • Grade levels 1 - 4
  • Library of Congress subjects Children's poetry, English, English poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91071845
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.809

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Iona and Peter Opie were married in 1943 and worked together for nearly forty years, studying and writing about children’s lore and literature until Peter’s death in 1982. Among their collaborations is The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Iona Opie lives in 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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About the author

Iona and Peter Opie were married in 1943 and worked together for nearly forty years, studying and writing about children's lore and literature until Peter's death in 1982. Among their collaborations is "The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes." Iona Opie lives in 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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