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Iona Opie

Born

in Colchester, The United Kingdom

October 13, 1923

Died

October 23, 2017

Website

https://www.opiearchive.org/

Genre

Children's Books, Social Sciences

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Iona Margaret Balfour Archibald was born in Colchester, Essex, England. She was a researcher and writer on folklore and children's street culture. She is considered an authority on children's rhymes, street and playground games and the Mother Goose tradition. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1998 and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1999.

The couple met during World War II and married on 2 September 1943. The couple worked together closely, from their home near Farnham, Surrey, conducting primary fieldwork, library research, and interviews of thousands of children. In pursuing the folklore of contemporary childhood they directly recorded rhymes and games in real time as they were being ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 3,474 ratings · 542 reviews · 44 distinct works • Similar authors

	My Very First Mother Goose by Iona Opie, Rosemary Wells (Illustrator) 4.11 avg rating — 877 ratings — published 1996 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book by Iona Opie (editor), Peter Opie (editor), Maurice Sendak (Illustrator) 3.98 avg rating — 569 ratings — published 1947 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Classic Fairy Tales by Iona Opie, Peter Opie 4.19 avg rating — 395 ratings — published 1974 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Here Comes Mother Goose by Iona Opie (Editor), Rosemary Wells (Illustrator) 4.05 avg rating — 331 ratings — published 1999 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes by Iona Opie (Editor), Peter Opie (Editor) 4.26 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 1955 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (New York Review Books Classics) by Iona Opie, Peter Opie, Marina Warner (Introduction) 4.25 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 1959 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dictionary of Superstitions by Iona Opie (Editor), Moira Tatem (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1989 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Oxford Book of Children's Verse (Oxford Books of Verse) by Iona Opie (Editor), Peter Opie (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1973 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Humpty Dumpty: and Other Rhymes by Iona Opie, Rosemary Wells (Illustrator) 3.49 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One, Two, Three, Mother Goose by Iona Opie, Rosemary Wells (Illustrations) 3.46 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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My Very First Mother Goose Series (4 books)
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Rosemary Wells (Illustrator)

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Quotes by Iona Opie (?)

“Mother Goose will show newcomers to this world how astonishing, beautiful, capricious, dancy, eccentric, funny, goluptious, haphazard, intertwingled, joyous, kindly, loving, melodious, naughty, outrageous, pomsidillious, querimonious, romantic, silly, tremendous, unexpected, vertiginous, wonderful, x-citing, yo-heave-ho-ish, and zany it is.”
― Iona Opie, My Very First Mother Goose

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“Daisy, Daisy, the coppers are after you,
If they catch you they'll give you a month or two,
They'll tie you up with wi-er
Behind the Black Mari-er,
So ring your bell
And pedal like hell
On a bicycle made for two.”
― Iona Opie, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren

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“If you can't go to Hollywood
You don't have to cry;
Clark Gable is good looking
But so am I.”
― Iona Opie, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren

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