I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book by Opie, Iona & Peter - 2012

Candlewick Press (MA), 2012. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Candlewick Press (MA), 2012. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Candlewick Press (MA), 2012. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Candlewick, 2012-12-07. Reissue. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2012. 160 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 20 cm. Original edition first published by William and Northgate Ltd., London, 1947. Tight, clean copy. First edition thus. Fine DJ. A collection of rhymes and riddles traditionally passed on orally from child to child. CONTENTS: Introduction; Beginning of term; "Esau" and other dramas; Characters; Nonsense; 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; Notes. . 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Sendak, Maurice. 8vo.

Candlewick Press, 2012. Reissue 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Maurice Sendak color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2012 Candlewick small hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, reissue edition, first printing. Wonderful fun color illustrations by Maurice Sendak. CONTENT: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me." That's what children chant when they are being teased; it's what their parents chanted, and probably their grandparents before them. Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations of schoolchildren-more than 170 selections ranging from insults and riddles to 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-it offers knowledge and entertainment to all who open it. Grades 2 - 5+.

Paperback. Very Good.

Candlewick, 2012-12-07. Hardcover. Used:Good.