i saw esau the schoolchilds pocket book
sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me . thats what children chant when they are being teased ; its 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 opies introduction and detailed notes and maurice sendaks remarkable pictures vignettes sequences and full page paintings both wickedly funny and comically sad it offers knowledge and entertainment to all who open it .
a collection of rhymes and riddles traditionally passed on orally from child to child