This study looks at the superstitions, practices and beliefs, rhymes and chants, catcalls and retorts, stock jokes, ruderies, riddles, epithets, nicknames and juvenile slang that continue to flourish among children in England, Scotland and Wales. First published in 1959, it discloses a wealth of traditional lore and language. Iona and Peter Opie also wrote "The Singing Game", "A Nursery Companion", "The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book", "The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes", "Children's Games in Street and Playground", "The Oxford Book of Children's Verse" and "The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse".
- ISBN10 0192820591
- ISBN13 9780192820594
- Publish Date 1 August 1987 (first published December 1959)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 9 October 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Oxford Paperbacks
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 438
- Language English