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I saw Esau : the schoolchild's pocket book / edited by Iona and Peter Opie ; illustrated by Maurice Sendak.

Contributor(s): Opie, Iona Archibald | Opie, Peter | Sendak, Maurice [ill.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 1992Edition: 1st U.S. ed.Description: 160 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 1564020460 :; 156402072X (limited ed.).Subject(s): Folk poetry, English | Children's poetry, English | English poetry -- Collections | Children's writings | English poetry -- Collections | Children's writingsDDC classification: 398.8/0941
Contents:
Beginning of term -- "Esau" and other dramas -- Characters -- Nonesense -- 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.
Summary: A collection of rhymes and riddles traditionally passed on orally from child to child.
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Beginning of term -- "Esau" and other dramas -- Characters -- Nonesense -- 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.

Children's Catalog (Wilson)

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A collection of rhymes and riddles traditionally passed on orally from child to child.

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