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Your Family Tree - October 2008

What I loved about this book were the songs and rhymes of childhood. I actually sang along to classic playground games such as London Bridge is Falling Down as I read it and it brought back so many happy memories. As well as the verses, there are also explanations of their meanings so you can discover just which church bells were ringing in Oranges and Lemons. The combination of the history and meaning behind favourite playground games and the verses themselves make this a fantastic book and the explanations of now forgotten games such as hopscotch and various catch games will appeal to parents and grandparents - did you know that police were called when children scrawled gariffiti on the pavement because the caller didn't recognise the hopscotch grid! This book is virtually guaranteed to make you laugh and sing, I know I did.

Fiona Shoop