I saw Esau
Subtitle: the schoolchild's pocket book
By: edited by Iona and Peter Opie ; illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Edition: First U.S. edition in this format
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Somerville, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780763664015; 9780763659493
Subjects: English Folk poetry; Children's poetry, English; English poetry; Collections; Children's writings
Other titles: Schoolchild's pocket book
Description: A collection of rhymes and riddles traditionally passed on orally from child to child.
Notes: "Original edition first published by Williams and Northgate Ltd., London, 1947, as I Saw Esau: traditional rhymes of youth"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Beginning of term; title: "Esau" and other dramas; title: Characters; title: Nonsense; title: Insults; title: Retaliation; title: Reality; title: Graces; title: Riddles; title: More Characters; title: Teasing and repartee; title: Counting-out rhymes; title: Game rhymes; title: Guile, malicious; title: Guile, innocent; title: More insults; title: Still more characters; title: Verbal fun; title: Book protection; title: Book desecration; title: Mock scholastic; title: On some famous teachers; title: Lamentation; title: Reproachfulness; title: Seasonal; title: Contempt; title: Incantation; title: Lullabies, adolescent style; title: End of term; title: Notes.