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This is a splendid book, both as accurate reference and just plain fun. Every time I took out my copy to have another look, anyone who was in the vicinity flocked over to it. Dusan Petricic's wonderful illustrations are sophisticated and very silly at the same time. This is a gentle compilation of the timeless, centuries-old playground games and rhymes children enjoy most, from Leapfrog to Marbles, from Skipping to Hopscotch. "Gentle" because Camilla Gryski says from the start, "These games belong to you ... they are yours to play," and doesn't ever, even in the most oblique manner, suggest that they mustn't be changed.