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Parlour Games for Friends and Family
NEW and lightly revised
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, dice, paper and pen.
There are games that will challenge and stimulate you, and games that will have you in fits; games that can last all night or just a half-hour; games for adults and older children, and games for your four-year-old's birthday party.
Parlour Games for Friends and Family, 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.
Book of the Year for Older Children in the 2010 Australian Book Industry Awards.
“With 130 games both familiar and not, Jones and Tsintziras provide a wealth of family-friendly opportunities to eschew electronics and rekindle youthful spirits.”
“Here’s a book brimful of ideas for family fun - and there are no power cords or batteries involved! Great games and ideas to entertain on holidays - and more.”
“Marvellous.”