Children's Games in Street and Playground By Iona Opie; Peter Opie
2013 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 1782500324 | PDF | 17 MB
This book focuses initially on starting a game and games involving chasing, catching, and seeking. It includes favorites such as The Dreaded Lurgi, What's the Time Mr. Wolf?, Stuck in the Mud, and British Bulldog. The book goes on to look at games involving seeking, hunting, racing, duelling, exerting, daring, guessing, acting, and pretending. In all around 125 games are described in detail including the rhymes and sayings children repeat while playing them, together with the different names under which they are played. Brief historical notes are also included where relevant.