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

Perhaps this book should come with a warning to parents: within these pages, children deliberately scare each other, ritually hurt each other, take foolish risk

The result of a unique research project exploring the relationship between children's vernacular play cultures and their media-based play, this collection chall