Paperback. Blue board binding with white title and mother and child the front board.

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See the photographs for the quality of this paperback. A detailed reference book to the histories of more than 500 rhymes and songs, with their parallels, first appearances, origins, and variations. The Opies are unrivalled as authorities on the folklore of childhood.

Reviews:

• This is a book which I first read as a library copy when in hospital in 1963 and I have been meaning to get a copy for myself ever since. Now I have at last got one and all I can say is that the same curiosity that intrigued me over 50 years ago still holds me fascinated to-day. A work of great scholarship. I am so glad someone undertook this. Thank you Peter and Iona Opie; what you have saved and interpreted for posterity is something truly valuable.

• This is a book I have wanted for years and I’m really happy to have a copy, it is essential reading for anyone brought up on nursery rhymes