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Title: The Pinky Ball Book & the Pinky Ball (Ages 5-Up) by Dina Anastasio, Louis Wallach, Matthew Fox ISBN: 0-7611-1977-9 Publisher: Workman Publishing Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Moments of My Childhood
Comment: Hold this book in your hand and, if you're like me, it will evoke some pretty powerful memories of childhood. Not only is it chock-full of the games we Brooklyn girls used to play with our beloved Spaldeens (as well as the ones we were only allowed to watch the boys play) but it also comes with a real live Spaldeen (okay, so it's called a Pinky Ball). There are games I remember playing, like "A, My Name is Alice" and "Hit the Penny," games I don't remember, like "Four Square," and lots of games I knew by other names - regional variants, I guess. Anastasio has done a wonderful job of digging up a zillion games, as well as history, special Spaldeen techniques, and safety tips for the modern world, which is less inclined to make way for kids playing in the street. A comprehensive, well-written treat to read!
Rating: 4
Summary: Spaldeen 101
Comment: It's hard to fault a book that includes a spaldeen with it. Yes, a spaldeen--that's the canonically correct term for the pink rubber ball that is supplied with and described by this book. Obviously, the publisher wanted to avoid the sticky situation of the ball's true name, a corruption of the manufacturer's name, Spalding. No self-respecting New York kid would ever call it a pinky ball.
Despite the book's heavy dose of political correctness and Y2K-esque paranoia (basically, it advises kids not to do anything dangerous, which seems to extend to bouncing the ball near a street), this is a great little tome. There's lots of games described for kids to learn, and even a brief history of the ball--the spaldeen is correctly presented as the ultimate evolution of ball technology, which started with ancient Egyptians kid playing with mud they'd roll up into balls.
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Title: Hand Clap! "Miss Mary Mack" and 42 Other Hand Clapping Games for Kids by Sara Bernstein ISBN: 1558504265 Publisher: Adams Media Corporation Pub. Date: 01 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: What Are the Seven Wonders of the World? and 100 Other Great Cultural Lists--Fully Explicated by Peter D'Epiro, Mary Desmond Pinkowish ISBN: 0385490623 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Then Sings My Soul: 150 Of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories by Robert Morgan ISBN: 0785249397 Publisher: Nelson Reference & Electronic Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese by Kathryn Petras, Ross Petras ISBN: 0761125183 Publisher: Workman Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Our Lady of the Lost and Found: A Novel by Diane Schoemperlen ISBN: 0142001325 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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