Children's Games in Street and Playground by Iona and Peter Opie hermione granger sandy shore walk in a

sandy shore walk in a story where every single word starts with the letter S

Original cover art by Don Freeman from the 1968 first edition

In five brief stories Frog plays straight man to his best friend Toad

There are two species of beaver

Children's Games in Street and Playground by Iona and Peter Opie hermione granger sandy shore walk in aIn 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