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Iona Opie (1923–2017)

Auteur van My Very First Mother Goose

42+ Werken 6,167 Leden 121 Besprekingen

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Iona Margaret Opie was born on October 13, 1923. During World War II, she made meteorological maps in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. She married Peter Opie in 1943. Together they collected children's rhymes, riddles, and street culture. Their books included I Saw Esau, The Oxford Dictionary of toon meer Nursery Rhymes, The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, Children's Games in Street and Playground, and The Classic Fairy Tales. After her husband's death in 1982, she continued the work alone. Her books included The People in the Playground, Tail Feathers from Mother Goose, Here Comes Mother Goose, A Dictionary of Superstitions, and Children's Games with Things. Her son Robert collaborated with her on The Treasures of Childhood. She was made CBE in 1999. She died on October 23, 2017 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Ontwarringsbericht:

(eng) Several works by the husband-and-wife team of Iona and Peter Opie are listed additionally and/or separately on LT under their individual names.

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Werken van Iona Opie

My Very First Mother Goose (1996) 831 exemplaren
The Classic Fairy Tales (1974) — Redacteur — 727 exemplaren
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951) — Redacteur — 555 exemplaren
Here Comes Mother Goose (1999) 366 exemplaren
A Dictionary of Superstitions (1989) 344 exemplaren
The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book (1740) 224 exemplaren
The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse (1983) 121 exemplaren
A Nursery Companion (1980) 84 exemplaren
The People in the Playground (1993) 66 exemplaren
The Very Best of Mother Goose (1999) 60 exemplaren
The Singing Game (1985) 49 exemplaren
Children's Games with Things (1997) 30 exemplaren
One, Two, Three, Mother Goose (2016) 17 exemplaren
My Mother Goose Library (2000) 10 exemplaren
A Family Book of Nursery Rhymes (1962) 10 exemplaren
Nursery Rhymes 3 exemplaren
Ditties for Nursery (1954) 2 exemplaren

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Officiële naam
Opie, Iona Margaret Balfour
Geboortedatum
1923-10-13
Overlijdensdatum
2017-10-23
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
UK
Beroepen
folklorist
Relaties
Opie, Peter (husband)
Opie, Robert (son)
Opie, James (son)
Organisaties
WAAF
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (1991)
Fellow of the British Academy
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Ontwarringsbericht
Several works by the husband-and-wife team of Iona and Peter Opie are listed additionally and/or separately on LT under their individual names.

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The history notes and the illustrations make this a great reference work,
 
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lcl999 | 5 andere besprekingen | Dec 20, 2023 |
-see the review of Opie's The Classic Fairy Tales
 
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mykl-s | 13 andere besprekingen | Aug 6, 2023 |
I appreciate the scholarship Opie employs to present these stories as they were collected long before all the modern variations. They were enjoyable even though not the genera I usually read.
 
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mykl-s | 8 andere besprekingen | Aug 6, 2023 |
A collection of children's rhymes, first collected in England in 1946, including things like taunts and insults, riddles, skipping rhymes, and mocking verses about schoolwork. Most of them probably aren't exactly the sort of thing you'd find in Mother Goose.

The rhymes themselves are mildly interesting, sometimes vaguely amusing, and often (from the perspective of a 21st century American) entertainingly quaint-feeling in their language. There are a few brief notes on a number of them in the back -- something I wish I'd realized while I was reading through them -- but not enough to make this feel more like a work of scholarship than a collection of amusements.

It would all be diverting for a few minutes and then pretty quickly forgettable, I think, except that this edition, from 1992, also includes some delightfully offbeat (indeed, sometimes charmingly grotesque) illustrations by Maurice Sendak.
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bragan | 13 andere besprekingen | Mar 13, 2023 |

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Werken
42
Ook door
1
Leden
6,167
Populariteit
#3,990
Waardering
4.1
Besprekingen
121
ISBNs
124
Talen
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