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A comprehensive examination of the world of children when they are by themselves including the omens they observe and their pranks. Bibliographical footnotes
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Physical description; xviii 417 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm. Subject; Children ; Folklore.
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The Opies, professors of literature and essentially folklorists, did something path-breaking: they observed children and took their play seriously The Lore and Language of Schoolchildrenreminds us that children are their own beings who create and navigate complicated social worlds, and the way they do so is worthy of respect and understanding. Hilary Levey Friedman, Brain, ChildMagazine"
"The Opies, professors of literature and essentially folklorists, did something path-breaking: they observed children and took their play seriously...The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren reminds us that children are their own beings who create and navigate complicated social worlds, and the way they do so is worthy of respect and understanding." --Hilary Levey Friedman, Brain, Child Magazine
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The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Minor shelf wear to blue cloth hardcover and dust jacket. Otherwise a tight, unmarked volume. Index. xix, 417 pp. Seller Inventory # 059219
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The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
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hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good(+). 11 maps. xviii + 417pp., 8vo, cloth, lightly edgeworn d.w. London: Oxford University Press, (1976). A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. Seller Inventory # 301096
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The Lore and Language of School-Children
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Rhymes, chants, superstitions, etc., collected in interviews with English children. Seller Inventory # 000448
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The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
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