Peter Opie

Selected works

• Peter Opie, 1946, The Case of Being a Young Man, a discursion (Chosen Books, competition prize winner)
• Iona and Peter Opie, collectors and editors, 1947. I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth (Williams & Norgate Ltd)
• Iona and Peter Opie, editors, 1951. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press)
• Iona and Peter Opie, 1959, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (Oxford University Press)
• Iona and Peter Opie, 1963, The Puffin Book of Nursery Rhymes (Penguin/Puffin)
• Iona and Peter Opie, 1969, Children's Games in Street and Playground (Oxford University Press)
• Iona and Peter Opie, editors, 1974. The Classic Fairy Tales (Oxford University Press). Presents the texts of twenty-four familiar fairy tales as they were first published in English; summarises the history of each tale, especially from the textual point of view.
• Iona and Peter Opie, 1985. The Singing Game (Oxford University Press).
• Iona and Peter Opie, 1988. Tail Feathers of Mother Goose (Little Brown & Company).
• Iona Opie, 1993. The People in the Playground. (Oxford University Press).
• Iona and Peter Opie, 1997. Children's Games with Things (Oxford University Press).
• Opie, Iona, and Moira Tatem, eds. 1989, A Dictionary of Superstitions. Oxford: Oxford University Press,