Kids Around the World Play!: The Best Fun and Games from Many Lands (Kids Around the World)

129 Pages·2002·6.3 MB·English

by  Arlette N. Braman

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World Play!
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World Play!
The Best Fun and Games from Many Lands
Arlette N. Braman
Illustrated by Michele Nidenoff
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Copyright ©2002 by Arlette N. Braman. All rights reserved
Illustration copyright ©by Michele Nidenoff. All rights reserved
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To Callan and Abigail
Always find time to play!
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix Marbles: Bolivia 43
Cup and Saucer:
A Message to Kids of All Cultures xi
New Caledonia 47
1. T Y B 1
EASE OUR RAIN
4. R , S , G ! 53
EADY ET O
Word Games: Russia 3
Kickball: Mexico 55
The Seven Clever Pieces: China 9
Oonch Neech: Pakistan 60
Dithwai: South Africa 14
Ishikeri: Japan 64
2. TAKE A CHANCE! 19 Flower Relay: South Korea 69
Gulam Chor: India 21
5. N G “B ” 75
EVER ET OARD
Tiu-ü: China 26
Le Lotto: Italy 31 Bottle Cap Checkers:
Kenya 77
3. SHARPEN YOUR SKILLS 37 Mühle: Germany 82
Senet: Ancient Egypt 87
Jackstones: Kenya 39
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6. MAKE TERRIFIC TOYS 93 Glossary 109
Galimoto: Malawi 95
Index 111
Jumping Jack: United States 99
Bilboquet: France 106
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Acknowledgments
I
would like to thank the following people for their help with game testing; Ms. Fumiko Kondo and Scott
willingness to help me with my research. Ms. Poluhowich for their help with Ishikeri; Tatyana E.
Heide Signes, third-grade teacher at the James Dodonova, Associate Professor, Department of Eng-
Michael Curley Elementary School, Jamaica Plain, lish Philosophy and Translation, St. Petersburg State
Massachusetts, for asking students at the school to University, Russia, for enlightening me about Russian
help me with game ideas; and to the students at James word games; Larry Bond for connecting me with
Michael Curley Elementary School for sharing their Tatyana; Judy Nancarrow for her information about
games with me: Tadesh Dow Inagaki for information Dog and the Bone; Elliott Avedon, Bernie Range, and
about Go; Kaninu Njoroge for Bottle Cap Checkers; Tova Fisher of the Elliott Avedon Museum and
Estella Stephens for Children, Children; Sean Shea for Archive of Games, University of Waterloo, Ontario,
information on Curbs; Franchualiz Manso-Peñaloza Canada, for their information about the game Mühle;
for information on hand clapping games; Ms. Dore, Florence Bottin, Zdzislawa Krukowska, Wanda Szy-
sixth-grade teacher at the Stroudsburg Intermediate manska Zak, and Louise Duncan for their help with
School, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, for lending me her Polish pronunciations; Janice Visalli for her help with
students to test the games; Elizabeth Decker, Jill Italian pronunciations; Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara for
Decker, Callan Braman, and Abigail Braman for their providing me with Maori information; Liz Ruckel of
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