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

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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"

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