Children's Games in Street and Playground by Iona and Peter Opie Fluids Published in 1926

Published in 1926

the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it

Erin tells the stories I need to hear and brought my heart back home

Christina Bjork and Lena Anderson have collaborated on children's books for many years

Children's Games in Street and Playground by Iona and Peter Opie Fluids Published in 1926In 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 actually played. To fill the gap they carried out an exhaustive survey, through the decade, of the games that children 'in fact play' when aged roughly between six and twelve years of age, and when outdoors and usually when out of sight. The result was their classic work Children's Games in Street