Children's Games in Street and Playground: Hunting, Racing, Duelling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, Pretending

Opie, Iona Archibald,Opie, Peter

ISBN 10: 0863156673 / ISBN 13: 9780863156670

Published by Floris Books, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Children's Games in Street and Playground: Hunting, Racing, Duelling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, Pretending
• Publisher: Floris Books
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0863156673
• ISBN 13: 9780863156670
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Records games played in the street, park, playground and wasteland of more than 10,000 children from the Shetland Isles to the Channel Islands. This volume focuses on games involving seeking, hunting, racing, duelling, exerting, daring, guessing, acting and pretending.

About the Author

Iona Archibald Opie (born 1923) and Peter Mason Opie (1918-1982) met during World War II and together became a renowned husband-and-wife team of folklorists with a particular interest in children's toys, games and literature. They have written more than thirty books, including The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1952) and The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959). Iona Opie lives in Hampshire, England.