I Saw Esau - Softcover

Iona Opie; Peter Opie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074457806X ISBN 13: 9780744578065

Publisher: Walker Childrens Paperbacks, 2000

Synopsis

This collection of verse offers 170 rhymes: rhymes of insult and retaliation; of teasing and repartee; rhymes for skipping and for counting out; riddles, tounge-twisters, narratives and nonsense - rhymes that have been chanted by children for generations.

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Review:

"I saw Esau kissing Kate, / The fact is we all three saw; / For I saw him, / And he saw me, / And she saw I saw Esau." So goes the schoolyard chant that graces this brilliant collection with its title. This "Schoolchild's Pocket Book," edited by lore and literature legends Iona and Peter Opie and gleefully illustrated by Maurice Sendak, definitely belongs on every child's shelf, right next to Mother Goose nursery rhymes and Grimms' fairy tales. I Saw Esau was first published in Great Britain in 1947, but it is vibrantly alive today as a glorious, whimsical collection of more than 170 schoolyard rhymes, ranging from insults and riddles to tongue twisters, jeers, and jump-rope rhymes--"clearly not rhymes that a grandmother might sing to a grandchild on her knee," writes Iona Opie in her introduction. We adore this sturdy, beautifully designed, pocket-sized book of funny, sometimes twisted, but always perfectly illustrated morsels of schoolyard tradition and history. (Ages 4 to 8, and all other ages, too)

About the Author:

Editors of the celebrated I Saw Esau, illustrated by Maurice Sendak. A world authority on children's nursery rhymes and compiler of numerous enchanting nursery rhyme collections. Legendary picture-book maker, among whose most celebrated titles is the 1964 Caldecott Honor-winning Where the Wild Things Are.

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker Childrens Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 074457806X
• ISBN 13: 9780744578065
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Illustrator: Maurice Sendak