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

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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.

This is an interesting book that talks about the different kinds of games that children play, all categorized and analyzed. You are sure to find some of your favorites as well as discover some you've never heard of. Here are some reviews about this title, in case you are interested in learning more about it:

"On the surface it is an exhaustive record of the games children play when out in the street, park, playground, or wasteland, but the book, for the general reader, is primarily a journey, not so much into nostalgia, as into a sharper recollection of the uncramped imagination and brilliant nightmare of childhood."--the Guardian

"What these two remarkable authors do is understand the actual playing, the actual delight of children's games. Somewhere in the 350 pages of this book you are sure to find the game you liked the best in your own childhood. It will be there in all its varieties, under its various names, indexed, classified and described, presented as a living thing, not as a curio, and not as something out of the antique shop of folklore."--Country life.