I Saw Esau The Schoolchild's Pocket Book

An uplifting and hugely entertaining collection of playground rhymes, edited by Iona and Peter Opie, leading authorities on children's rhymes, and with artwork by perhaps the world's most influential picture book illustrator, Maurice Sendak.In print again twenty years after it was first published, I saw Esau is a wonderful pocket book collection of over 170 playground rhymes, some of them hundreds of years old. From nonsense to riddles, retaliation rhymes to insults, the chants of schoolchildren across the centuries are revived in this joyful celebration of life and laughter. Sendak's boisterous illustrations revel in the fun, mischief and rebelliousness of childhood, and, as Iona Opie recognises in her wonderful introduction, much of the book's charm comes from its sense of the extraordinary indomitable spirit of children: "In Maurice Sendak's pictures the child always wins".

ISBN:	9780744521511
Publisher:	Walker Books
Imprint:	Walker Books Ltd
Published date:	30 Apr 1992
DEWEY:	398.8
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	160
Weight:	415g
Height:	193mm
Width:	140mm
Spine width:	26mm

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