Parlour Games for Modern Families
Overview
Winner of the 2010 Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year for Older Children (age range 8 to 14 years)
Parlour Games for Modern Families sets out to revive the tradition of indoor family games: push aside the consoles, turn off the telly, and bring some mental stimulation, silliness and laughter, joy and connection back into your living room.
This book is bursting with games of logic and memory, wordplay, card games, role-play, and rough and tumble. Not a single game requires equipment that you won’t find in your average home: a pack of cards, a dictionary, an hourglass, dice, paper and pen.
Games are organised thematically and referenced for age appropriateness. All are set out with clear rules and instructions. There are games that will challenge and stimulate you, and games that will have you in fits; games that can last all night, and games to fill that empty half-hour before tea; games for adults and older children, and games for your four-year-old’s birthday party.
Parlour Games for Modern Families, a book for fun-lovers aged four to 104, winds back the clock to remind you of games you’d forgotten and then a whole lot more. Whether you dip into it as the urge takes you or read it from cover to cover, a very good time is guaranteed.
Details
- Format
- Size
- Extent
- ISBN
- RRP
- Pub date
- Paperback
- 198mm x 128mm
- 288 pages
- 9781921844416
- AUD$27.99
- 28 November 2011
Categories
Awards
- Winner of the 2010 Australian Book Industry Awards
- null Book of the Year for Older Children (age range 8 to 14 years)
Praise
‘[A] paperback stacked with a paper carnival of fun ... Adults will delight in the whimsy of memorable games from childhood and will love enthralling the kids when hauling them out of the past.’
‘In this day and age, it's hard to prise the kids away from their electronic equipment (TV, computers, game consoles and on the list goes), not to mention you, the parent from your chores. But this little corker of a book should help you out. Written by two mothers, it's packed full of fabulous games that families used to play years ago ... Gather up the clan into one room, choose a game (Farkle, Pontoon, Flip the Kipper or Picture Consequences, perhaps) and have a bit of genuine fun, and family time.’
About the Authors
Myfanwy Jones is the author of The Rainy Season, shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award 2010, and Leap, longlisted for the 2016 Voss Literary Prize and finalist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. She also co-authored the bestselling nonfiction book Parlour Games for Modern Families, awarded ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children 2010. She lives and writes by a creek in Melbourne.
Spiri Tsintziras, along with her tribe of young and not-so-young research assistants, has rediscovered the joy of games in the writing of this book. When she is not playing, she writes for work and pleasure, and has had many articles published in The Age. Spiri blogs at www.writingspirit.com.au.
