The Complete Playground Book

A guide to the design and creation of playgrounds looks at their history and purpose, visits playgrounds around the world, examines current research, and suggests playground activities

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On the Playground

This book is about the many activities children can do at a playground.

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The Playground

In the 'After Dark' series for 10 to 14 year olds. Horror story about a deadly treasure hidden in a playground. The author/illustrator has won the Illustrators of the Future Award and the Australian National Science Fiction Best Artist Award.

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Safety on the Playground

Discusses how to safely use swings, slides, and other playground equipment.

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The Playground

Based on a short story 'Out of Bounds', 'The Playground' tells the story of Rosa, a young girl, who is sent by her mother to be the first black child in an all-white school where many parents remained hostile to Nelson Mandela's new integration laws. As Rosa's world collides with that of Hennie, the white boy whom Rosa's mother has looked after since he was a baby, both are forced to overcome their fears and show the courage to face each other.

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The Playground Book

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The Playground

Imagine a game of stealth, strategy and extreme violence, played in conditions of the utmost secrecy. Imagine the pawns in that game are a team of highly trained soldiers, and the board is a country. Imagine that the aim of the game is to overthrow a government. Now stop imagining. It's for real. thought you knew about post-war Europe. Take a book with the thrill-power of Bravo Two Zero, add a scandal with the political impact of Watergate and you're getting close.

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Heard it in the Playground

This illustrated collection of amusing poems and songs celebrating primary school life won the Signal Poetry Award in 1990. Meet Billy McBone and the Mad Professor’s Daughter, be amazed by the Longest Kiss Contest, shed a tear for the Boy Without a Name and – if you’re a stressed teacher – sing the Mrs Butler Blues.

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The Playground

Big Little Lies meets Lord of The Flies in this electrifyingly twisty follow-up to Jane Shemilt’s breakout debut The Daughter. Over the course of a long, hot summer in London, the lives of three very different married couples collide when their children join the same tutoring circle, resulting in illicit relationships, shocking violence, and unimaginable fallout. There’s Eve, a bougie earth mother with a well-stocked trust fund; she has three little ones, a blue-collar husband and is obsessed with her Instagrammable recipes and lifestyle. And Melissa, a successful interior designer whose casually cruel banker husband is careful not to leave visible bruises; she curates her perfectly thin body so closely she misses everything their teenage daughter is hiding. Then there’s Grace, a young Zimbabwean immigrant, who lives in high-rise housing project with her two children and their English father Martin, an award-winning but chronically broke novelist; she does far more for her family than she should have to. As the weeks go by, the couples become very close; there are barbecues, garden parties, a holiday at a country villa in Greece. Resentments flare. An affair begins. Unnoticed, the children run wild. The couples are busily watching each other, so distracted and self-absorbed that they forget to watch their children. No one sees the five children at their secret games or realize how much their family dynamics are changing until tragedy strikes. The story twists and then twists again while the three families desperately search for answers. It’s only as they begin to unravel the truth of what happened over the summer that they realize evil has crept quietly into their world. But has this knowledge come too late?

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Playground in the Yard Student Book

This is the small book version to accompany the Big Book. It focuses on developing early punctuation.Ideal for group work.

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The People in the Playground

For nearly forty years Iona Opie worked with her late husband Peter on a notable series of books on the traditional lore of childhood. As part of the fieldwork from 1970 onwards, she visited the local school playground every week.The children accepted Mrs Opie as a regular feature of the playground, a harmless collector of jokes and games. Her aim, however, was to provide the living context of school-lore, rather than the lore itself. She achieved this by writing down events exactly as they happened, and conversationsexactly as they were spoken. The result is a startlingly honest portrait of children at play, at once charming and hilarious, alarming and poignant, and full of infectious vitality.We see games seasons as they come and go, watch ephemeral amusements being devised and forgotten, and see how school-lore evolves and is transmitted. Much fundamental human behaviour is recoreded: the differences in attitudes between the sexes; the boys' irrevocable devotion to fighting andfootball, and their innate kindness; the art of storytelling; the friendships and enmities; the excited interest in sex; the diversity of characters; and above all, the hilarity which pervades the playground, creating entertainment out of trivialities.In the uninhibited language and astonishing inventiveness chronicled in these pages we recognize the games and jokes of previous generations; at once a revelation and a reassurance of continuity, this book offers a unique insight into the world of the child.

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Math on the Playground

Shows fun ways to practice addition and subtraction on a visit to the playground.

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Murder in the Playground

Report of the Macdonald Inquiry into racism & racial violence in Manchester schools.

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The Playground Problem

A must-have for any young reader, this Ready-to-Read delivers on important lessons in school! There's a problem on the playground! The boys won't let the girls play soccer with them during recess. Emma is furious! So she figures out a plan to get them to change their minds. And in the end they all learn that the best teams are the ones that everyone gets to play on!

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Playing on the Playground

Jackie and her friends play at the playground, always obeying the safety rules.

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The Year Book of the Playground and Recreation Association of America

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The Playground

When I was a child I tried a whole host of things and I always had the full support of my mother, Carmel Armstrong, and she told me that I could do anything that I put my mind to and I believed her and not only did I believe her, but I have also tried to pass this same message on to others as often as I could and especially to children because there's no greater gift that a human being can give to another than the gift of encouragement. And because of the wonderful and magnificent gift of encouragement, I am currently living my dream of being a published author and I have wanted this title ever since I watched my mother sit in front of her typewriter while filling the pages with words and in case you haven't guessed by now my mother was also a writer. The Playground is a gritty Gangster Novel that takes you on a journey through the lives of Sophia and David Bloom; mother and son who are forced to move to a Housing Project that's located on the Eastside of South Central Los Angeles after a family tragedy robs them of their financial well being. And their move takes place just before the rise of Crack Cocaine and before the decline of Heroin and it puts them in direct contact with dirty Cops, F.B.I. Agents, C.I.A. Operatives, Gangsters, Drug Dealers, White Supremacists, Thieving dope fiends of the worst kind, Revolutionaries or Domestic Terrorists if you prefer, and other shady representatives of the United States Government. But that's just the beginning because you see there's an unbelievable twist to the story that you won't believe. And I invite you to learn who Damu is and who Warlock is.

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Manners on the Playground

Describes good manners and shows how different character values can be used on the playground.

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Talk and Social Interaction in the Playground

Offers a thorough analysis of the methods and practices used by a group of children to generate and organise a particular game. Offers insight into the interactional resources used by children to produce and make sense of social action. Author from Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

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Games for the Playground Home School and Gymnasium

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