Book of Donmon Teith

An account of the games which children between the ages of six and twelve invent or perform out-of-doors for their own enjoyment

In the 1960s, Iona and Peter Opie observed that although many books had been written about how children should play, none had been written about how they actual

This final volume of the Opies' acclaimed trilogy deals with children's games that use equipment - such as marbles, skipping, fivestones, and ball-bouncing. The

“[A] combination of history and meaning behind favorite playground games and the verses . . . virtually guaranteed to make you laugh and sing” (Fiona Shoop,