The Opie CollecPeter and Iona Opie were a husband and wife team who had extensive careers as folklorists and authors, known for establishing a world class collection of some 20,000 works written or published for children ranging from the 16th to the 20th century (mainly British) as a private research resource. The Opie Collection has been microfiche formatted by University Microfiche International and subsequently distributed by them. Several individual items are also available in book form as listed below. The list begins: Opie, Iona, ed. 1954. Ditties for the Nursery. London: Oxford University Press. Opie, Iona and Moira Tatem, ed. 1989. A Diary of Superstitions. London: Oxford University Press. Opie, Iona, Robert Opie, and Brian Alderson. 1989. The Treasures of Childhood: Books, Toys, and Games from the Opie Collection. New York: Little, Brown. Opie, Iona. 1993. The People in the Playground. New York: Oxford University. Opie, Iona, ed. 1996. My Very First Mother Goose. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick. For more details, get your copy of The Poetry Teacher’s Book of Lists. And if you already have the book and would like to offer additions, corrections, or other input, please do so in the COMMENTS area. Thanks! tion: The Works of Peter and Iona Opie

Peter and Iona Opie were a husband and wife team who had extensive careers as folklorists and authors, known for establishing a world class collection of some 20,000 works written or published for children ranging from the 16th to the 20th century (mainly British) as a private research resource. The Opie Collection has been microfiche formatted by University Microfiche International and subsequently distributed by them. Several individual items are also available in book form as listed below.

The list

begins:

Opie, Iona, ed. 1954. Ditties for the Nursery. London: Oxford University Press.

Opie, Iona and Moira Tatem, ed. 1989. A Diary of Superstitions. London: Oxford University Press.

Opie, Iona, Robert Opie, and Brian Alderson. 1989. The Treasures of Childhood: Books, Toys, and Games from the Opie Collection. New York: Little, Brown.

Opie, Iona. 1993. The People in the Playground. New York: Oxford University.

Opie, Iona, ed. 1996. My Very First Mother Goose. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick.

For more details, get your copy of The Poetry Teacher’s Book of Lists.

And if you already have the book and would like to offer additions, corrections, or other input, please do so in the COMMENTS area. Thanks!