| Children's Games in Street and Playground: Chasing, Catching, Seeking | 
 enlarge | Authors: Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Mason Opie
Publisher: Floris Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 3501566
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0863156665
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.094109046
EAN: 9780863156663
ASIN: 0863156665
Publication Date: January 2009
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| • | Paperback - Children's Games in Street and Playground: Chasing, Catching, Seeking, Hunting, Racing, Dueling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, and Pretending. (Oxford Paperback Reference) | | • | Hardcover - Children's Games in Street and Playground: Chasing, Catching, Seeking, Hunting, Racing, Dueling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, and Pretending. | | • | Unknown Binding - Children's games in street and playground: Chasing, catching, seeking, hunting, racing, duelling, exerting, daring, guessing, acting, pretending; | | • | Paperback - Children's Games in Street and Playground: Hunting, Racing, Duelling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, Pretending |
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Product Description
Perhaps this book should come with a warning to parents: within these pages, children deliberately scare each other, ritually hurt each other, take foolish risks, promote fights, and play ten against one. Yet throughout, they consistently observe their own sense of fair play. Through the 1960s, Iona and Peter Opie did an exhaustive survey of the rough-and-tumble games that children actually play--normally out of sight, as opposed to formal sports or games supervised by parents--between roughly six and twelve years.
The result was their classic work, Children's Games in Street and Playground. To aid a clear and lively presentation of their remarkable study, the original single book has here been divided into two volumes. Both record games played by 10,000 children from the Shetland Isles to the Channel Islands, though most come from big cities such as London, Bristol, and Glasgow.
The books include many favorites, such as "The Dreaded Lurgi"; "What's the Time Mr. Wolf?"; "Stuck in the Mud," and "British Bulldog." Each game--more than 125--is described in detail, including many rhymes and sayings, regional variations, and historical notes.
The children of the 1960s, the Opies noted, are often thought "to be incapable of self-organization, and to have become addicted to spectator amusements," to the extent that adults must be relied on to provide play materials, ideas, and time to play with them. The same attitudes are still widespread today, with our concerns about television and computer games and the middle-class parental impulse to fill children's days with organized classes and play dates. There are important lessons in this book about giving children the time and physical space they need to learn how to be themselves with other children.
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Actual observations of how real kids play November 21, 1998
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book will help you regain your faith in children and respect for their games. It has been the cornerstone of my work for twenty years. It should not be out of print. Accurate, honest, direct observations of children at play, without the constraints of adult supervision, outside the boundaries of their playgrounds.
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