I Saw Esau — Iona Opie

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me." That's what children chant when they are being teased -- it's what their parents chanted and probably their grandparents before them! Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations of schoolchildren -- more than 170 selections ranging from insults and riddles to jeers and jump rope rhymes. With Iona Opie's introduction and detailed notes and Maurice Sendak's remarkable pictures -- vignettes sequences and full page paintings both wickedly funny and comically sad -- it offers knowledge and entertainment to all who open it.