Children's Games in Street and Playground: Chasing, Catching, Seeking, Hunting, Racing, Dueling, Exerting, Daring, Guessing, Acting, and Pretending.

by Peter Opie and Iona Opie

Book Overview

This record of children's outdoor games played in the street, park, playground, or wasteland is drawn from the contributions of 10,000 children in England, Scotland and Wales. It reveals that the games children take pleasure in when out on their own are usually those learnt from each other - not from adults. They are games in which children may deliberately scare each other, ritually hurt each other, take foolish risks, play ten against one, and yet in which they consistenly observe their own sense of fair play.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192814893
• ISBN13: 9780192814890
• Release Date: April 1985
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Actual observations of how real kids play

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.