Best Games: 188 Active and Quiet, Simple and Sophisticated, Games for Preschoolers through Adults

Fishing for paper clips, grandmother's trunk, Advertisements, Balloon Volleyball, Chin Game, Pickle in the Middle, Shadow Tag, How Do You Like Your Neighbors?--for every mood and occasion there is a game in this collection that will fit the situation. For rainy-day ideas, children's programs, teen groups, institutional settings, grown-ups' parties.

Test-of-time games in easy-to-understand, nonsexist language. Indexed by age level, amount of activity, and type.

Linda Jennings is retired after a 34-year career in public information work for Hennepin County, Minnesota, including 30 years as communications manager for the Hennepin County Library System. She lives in St. Louis Park.

The late Mary L. Lamp lived in Farmington, Minnesota.

Jerome Stenberg lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.