Elsa Beskow's charming illustrations bring to life this classic Hans Christian Andersen tale of a thumb-sized girl who has big adventures
chair of Christian Origins and head of the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh
how historical study can promote the right kind of intellectual discipline
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this is the most youthful and and optimistic of Jane Austen's works
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (Revised) (New York Review Books Classics) by Iona Opie & Peter Opie bug bites Elsa Beskow's charming illustrations bringFirst published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Going outside the nursery, with its assortment of parent approved entertainments, to observe and investigate the day to day creative intelligence and activities of children, the Opies bring to life the rites and rhymes, jokes and jeers, laws, games, and secret spells of