Children's Games in Street and Playground by Iona and Peter Opie Fluids a ride on a lion

a ride on a lion

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

Published in 1926

a feast with Badger and high jinx on the open road with that reckless ruffian

Children's Games in Street and Playground by Iona and Peter Opie Fluids a ride on a lionIn 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