Children’s Games in Street and Playground, Volume 1
Chasing, Catching, Seeking
by Iona Opie, Peter Opie

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• Publisher: Floris Books
• Release date: January 1, 2009
• ISBN: 9780863156663 (0863156665)
• Author: Iona Opie, Peter Opie
• Format: paperback, 235 pages
• Language: english

About The Book

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. And yet, throughout, they consistently observe their own sense of fair play.

In the 1960s, Iona and Peter Opie carried out an exhaustive survey of the rough-and-tumble outdoor games that children aged six to twelve played, normally out of the sight of adults.

The result was their classic work, Children’s Games in Street and Playground, which recorded games played by 10,000 children from the Shetland Isles to the Channel Isles, and particularly from the big cities such as London, Bristol and Glasgow.

This first volume focuses on starting a game, and games involving chasing, catching and seeking. It includes favourites such as The Dreaded Lurgi, What’s the Time Mr Wolf, Stuck in the Mud, and British Bulldog, as well as around 40 other games. Each game is described in detail and gives the rhymes and sayings children repeat while playing them, together with the different names under which they are played. There are also brief historical notes.

An insightful introduction by Patricia Patterson-Vanegas, editor of Juno magazine, compares their findings with the present day situation, and asks whether parents and children are currently missing out on an important stage of development.

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