PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780763659493
- Categories BX, BXOS, C RD, Children's Books, H/C, Reading Books, WBD
- Author(s) Iona Opie
- Publisher Candlewick Press
- Pages 160
- Format Hardcover
- Dimensions 18.6cm x 2.8cm x 14.0cm
- Weight 0.48 kg
product description
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.