Folk Toys Around the World and How to Make Them

by Joan Joseph

Book Overview

Introduces toys from various countries, gives directions for constructing them, and discusses the materials needed. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819305987
• ISBN13: 9780819305985
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Parents Magazine Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Superb boook on folk toys

This book provides easy to follow instructions for making: 1. Yugoslavia: five dolls 2. Philippines and Greece: yo-yo 3. New Zealand: thunderbolt 4. New Mexico: bull roared 5. Austria: tumbling man 6. West Indies: twirling yo-yo 7. PreColumbian Americas: spear-the-fish game 8. Portugal: balancing fisherman 9. Israel: Haman knocker 10. Venezuela: corn cob donkey 11. China: flip ball 12. France: the hangman's noose 13. Japan: daruma dollas 14. Finland: prisoner's lock 15. Java: shadow puppet 16. Uganda: thumb piano 17. United Arab Republic: sagat player 18. USSR: Russian bear 19. Poland: pecking birdAbsolutely wonderful.