The Lore of the Playground: The Children's World - Then and Now

by Steve Roud

Book Overview

From conkers to marbles, from British Bulldog to tag, not forgetting 'one potato, two potato' and 'eeny, meeny, miny, mo', The Lore of the Playground looks at the games children have enjoyed, the rhymes they have chanted and the rituals and traditions they have observed over the past hundred years and more.

Each generation, it emerges, has had its own favourites - hoops and tops in the 1930s, clapping games more recently. Some...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099505274
• ISBN13: 9780099505273
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.1" x 7.8"