This survey covers virtually every aspect of childhood and every type of book, toy, game and diversion. Over a period of 40 years, Iona and Peter Opie assembled
Chiefly British children's books, from the earliest period to the present, collected by Iona and Peter Opie, and housed in the Bodleian Library of Oxford Univer
First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and endurin
This collection of essays by twenty leading scholars applauds the Opies' work in this field while exploring many topics, from the behavior of children in early