Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series)

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A Labyrinth Not for the Systematic Reader...

"People who do not read Cortazar are doomed. Not to read him is a serious invisible disease." P. Neruda

A sad ending ...

Not for the plot-hungry, but worth it for enthusiasts

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Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series)
Julio Cortazar
Manufacturer: Pantheon
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Rayuela/ Hopscotch

Pedro Paramo

Cronopios and Famas

Borges: Collected Fictions

ASIN: 0394752848
Release Date: 1987-02-12

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Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, free-wheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures.

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A Labyrinth Not for the Systematic Reader..........2005-12-03

HOPSCOTCH by Julio Cortazar is more of a maze exploration than simply a good read, yet I became entranced with the prose.

Initially I was attracted to the non-linear format of HOPSCOTCH. Cortazar wants us jumping in and out of the plot line in the main "novel" with seemingly off-the-wall interruptions, but they turn out to be connected after all by the "end." And then some of the juxtapositions are less sublime but equally effective, such as in chapter 14 when Oliveira is looking at Wong's series of pictures depicting an execution in China. As gruesome as the descriptions are, skipping next to chapter 114, I couldn't help but to internalize the absurdity of the "civilized" treatment in the San Quentin prison gas chamber.

Anyway, HOPSCOTCH has in fact been a wonderful read but I think this is the kind of book that readers have to give at least fifty pages (even if that happens to be page 210) before the story grabs hold.

"People who do not read Cortazar are doomed. Not to read him is a serious invisible disease." P. Neruda.......2005-09-05

It has taken me years to sit down and finally make a serious commitment to read Julio Cortazar's "Hopscotch/La Rayuela." I cannot think of a better companion to devote a few weeks to, maybe even a bit longer - hey, whatever it takes! It depends on your reading speed and the time you take to savor the poetry of the author's language. So, be willing to make a small personal investment in this very special novel, and the reward you reap will be a worthy one. Julio Cortazar will take you to places you have never been before in literature, and may never experience again. I read "Hopscotch" over this past summer, after a thirty year delay. I can be real stubborn about putting off what is good for me!! Cortazar's imagination is boundless, his prose rich and luminous, his wit and sophistication rare, the dialogue brilliant, the plot...I won't attempt to describe that with a few adjectives. Wander through the extraordinary labyrinthine plot on you own - the way is yours to discover. I promise, you won't get lost!

My introduction to "La Rayuela", (which means hopscotch, like the children's game), is a personal story. I will make it quick. About 30 years ago, while living in Latin America, a friend told me that I reminded him of a character in a novel. The character, La Maga - the book "La Rayuela/Hopscotch." With personal interests at stake and much curiosity, I bought a copy in Spanish, which I read with some fluency at the time. After experimenting with which way to approach the novel, and trying both ways, I gave up...and just read the parts about La Maga. I was too impatient at that point in my life, and needed to become a mellower person, to read slower, with more of a sense of play and participation. And Cortazar wants his readers to participate - to make reading his book an interactive experience, not a passive one. I was and still feel touched when I remember my friend's comments regarding La Maga. She is a magnificent character and Cortazer's prose, his language, (Spanish), is exquisite. So, I thought I'd give it another try, in English, perhaps with better results. None! I just wasn't ready, I guess. That happens to me with fiction sometimes. I have to be open to the experience. However, after all these years, I still thought of Horacio Oliveira and La Maga from time to time. And why not? They are truly unforgettable. As I wrote above, I did make time, at last. For an adventure of a lifetime, I recommend you do the same.

When Julio Cortazar published "La Rayuela" in 1966, he turned the conventional novel upside-down and the literary world on its ear with this experiment in writing fiction. He soon became an important influence on writers everywhere. "Hopscotch" is considered to be one of the best novels written in Spanish. This is an interactive novel where readers are invited to rearrange its sections and read them in different sequences. Read in a linear fashion, "Hopscotch" contains 700 pages, 155 chapters in three sections: "From the Other Side," and "From This Side" - the first two sections are sustained by relatively chronological narratives and so contrast greatly with the third section, "From Diverse Sides," (subtitled "Expendable Chapters"), which includes philosophical extrapolation, character study, allusions and quotations, and an entirely different version of the "ending."

The book has no table of contents, but rather a "Table of Instructions." There, we learn that two approved readings are possible: from Chapter 1 through 56 "in a normal fashion", or from Chapter 73 to Chapter 1 to... well, wherever the chapters lead you. The instructions are all in your book and are extremely clear. At the end of each chapter there is a numeric indicator to lead the reader to the next chapter. One never knows where one will be lead. Due to its meandering nature, "Hopscotch" has been called a "Proto-hypertext" novel. Cortázar probably had this work in mind when he stated, "If I had the technical means to print my own books, I think I would keep on producing collage-books."

What is most important, as a reviewer, is to give you, the prospective reader, an idea of the narrative and the characters...and to tell you why reading this novel was such an extraordinary experience for me. Horacio Oliveira, our protagonist and sometimes narrator, is an Argentinean expatriate, an intellectual and professed writer in 1950's bohemian Paris. He and his close friends, members of "the Club," do lots of partying, drinking, and intellectualizing, discussing art, literature, music and solving the world's problems. Oliveira lives with and loves La Maga, an exotic young woman, somewhat whimsical, at times almost ephemeral who leaves behind her, like the scent of a light perfume, a feeling of poignancy and inevitable loss. La Maga refuses to plan her encounters with Oliveira in advance, preferring instead to run into each other by chance. Then she and Oliveira celebrate the series of circumstances that reunite them - although he knows well the places she frequents and is capable of causing at least a few planned surprises. Eventually, he loses La Maga, who loses her child. With her absence, Oliveira realizes how empty and meaningless his life is and he returns to his native Buenos Aires. There he finds work first as a salesman, then a keeper of a circus cat, and an attendant in an insane asylum.

As Oliveira wends his way through France, Uruguay and Argentina looking for his lost love, "Hopscotch's" narrative takes on an emotionally intense stream of consciousness style, rich in metaphor. Back In Argentina, Oliveira shares his life with his bizarre double, Traveler, and Traveler's wife, Talita, whom Oliveira attempts to remake into a facsimile of La Maga. The game of hopscotch is only developed as a conceit late in the narrative. It is first used to describe Oliveira's confused love for La Maga as "that crazy hopscotch." The theme develops as a metaphor for reaching Heaven from Earth. "When practically no one has learned how to make the pebble climb into Heaven, childhood is over all of a sudden and you're into novels, into the anguish of the senseless divine trajectory, into the speculation about another Heaven that you have to learn to reach too." The variations on the children's game are described as "spiral hopscotch, rectangular hopscotch, fantasy hopscotch, not played very often." The allusions continue and include some beautiful passages.

"Hopscotch" is much more than a novel. Ultimately, it is best left for each reader to define what it is for himself/herself. Pablo Neruda in a famous quote said, "People who do not read Cortazar are doomed. Not to read him is a serious invisible disease." I don't know whether I would go so far. Remember, I put off the experience for many years. But this is one novel that should be read during one's lifetime. It is brilliant and it is fun!
JANA

A sad ending ..........2005-01-10

... but not in the fashion of what Julio Cortazar called the female reader, but in the sense that, in an act of editorial indiscretion, the author failed to let go of the entire Part 3, making a bona-fide, in fact a supreme book matching Under the Volcano in emotional intensity into something with a large appendix of (sometimes amusing) existentialist musings. If you are into novelist anticlimax, or antinovelish (Cortazar's word) fettishes, go ahead and read part 3. If you want to go out on a high note, stop after you have done Part 2.

The above notwithstanding, Cortazar was a supreme talent. The story is a simple one, but Cortazar was able to make it extremely complicated in words, intellectual virtuosity, and existentialist absurdities. If the reader finds the start tedious and pointless, I can assure you that you will find your reward near the end of Part 2 (in fact for most of Part 2). Certain scenes and narratives were just acts of genius, and it was emotionally moving.

However, don't go to Part 3, if you do not want your emotional resonance deconstructed -- maybe that is the point of Part 3, but I am just a little too old-fashioned.

Not for the plot-hungry, but worth it for enthusiasts.......2005-01-01

I suppose it's unreasonable to expect the world's first so-called hypertext novel - one in which you can read the chapters sequentially, or in an order recommended by the author, or in any other order you choose - to have a compelling plot. After all, plot relies on anticipation and surprise, both of which come from authorial control over how and when information is revealed. A lot of the delight in fiction comes from this, and most of the rest from character, theme and the texture of the language. Cortazar's revolutionary novel is big on the last few, but not unexpectedly fails to be very engaging when it comes to story. It's more of a character study, or rather an elaboration of a philosophical position through the depiction of certain people in a particular place and time, i.e. left-leaning international emigres in 1950s Paris, and later the locals in Buenos Aires, who spend most of their time smoking, drinking, listening to jazz, competing for affection, philosophizing about life, and trying not to be the creative geniuses they obviously know they are. There are some wonderful set pieces: the infamous Chapter 28 involving a baby in a darkened room; the afternoon a plank bridge is erected to join two hotel rooms on opposite sides of a busy Buenos Aires street; an elaborate booby trap of water-filled basins, tangled threads and ball-bearings to thwart a vengeful lover in the night; and, obviously, the hopscotch squares of the title which are drawn in the courtyard of an insane asylum. These incidents are all engaging, comic, and wonderfully laden with a metaphorical/philosophical import which serves Cortazar's embedded theme: that is, the conundrum of consciousness; the unending desire to break through "the wall" to the other side of life in order to achieve the "unity" we intuitively feel exists but to which there is no easy path. This is the novel's engine, but it does take a while to fire up. If slowly savouring 500+ pages of that kind of thing interests you, then you'll enjoy "Hopscotch" immensely. If it doesn't, then reading this novel will be somewhat like being trapped at a really bad party with drunk and depressive philosophy undergraduates who think they know everything about jazz. I had the urge to leave early, but I'm glad I stayed until the end. Eventually, someone shut the music off, opened all the windows, and in the silence of dawn something clicked.

For a multidimensional and modern narrative .......2004-11-21

Many people think that the word interaction is a XXI century concept related to computers and cyberspace, but it as far as literature goes, this is one of the oldest concepts pursued by many writers. Argentinian Julio Cortázar comes as one of the most important authors to seek such structure with his monumental novel "Hopscotch", written in 1964.

Not only history did influence Cortázar in his writings, but also European Vanguards have a major role in his literary project -- most notably Cubism. The non-linear narrative of "Hopscotch" makes its structure reads like a hopscotch game. Reading the novel feels like jumping from one square to another, back and forth. Using that, the author tries to violate the rules established of writing and narrative structure.

If one chooses to read "Hopscotch" in the linear fashion --both ways are possibilities -- there are 155 chapters in three sections: "From the Other Side," "From This Side," and "From Diverse Sides" (subtitled "Expendable Chapters"). And in the introduction the reader will find a "Table of Instructions." There, we learn that two approved readings of the book are possible: from Chapter 1 through 56 "in a normal fashion" (i), or from Chapter 73 to Chapter 1 to... well, wherever the chapters lead. Each has a numeric indicator of the subsequent chapter following its terminal sentence. In this way, we do not know which chapter to expect next until it is time to actually read it.

Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer living in the bohemian Paris of the 50s. After losing her lover, known as La Maga, he returns to his Buenos Aires to continue his picaresque adventures.

Another structure used in the novel is the labyrinth -- like the labyrinth of streets where Oliveira usually meets La Maga in Paris. And this also alludes to an emotional labyrinth to which both he and she will be trapped. By the way, emotion -- not the regular one-- has a major role in the narrative. All Oliveira's friends are somehow emotionally damaged -- trying to cope with their depression and problems.

However much the structure sounds like off putting, the novel reads smoothly once one gets into the cubism of the narrative. Needless to say that the reader must appreciated the bohemian way of life -- including alcohol and drugs, and art discussion -- to be interested in the book.

With his "Hopscotch", Cortázar defies his readers. Playing this game is worth the candle. Experienced readers will be delighted with the structure of hypertext and all the possibilities of reading this novel.

Hopscotch, Hangman, Hot Potato, & Ha Ha Ha: A Rulebook of Children's Games

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Hopscotch,Hangman, Hot Potato& Ha Ha Ha : A Rulebook of Children's Games
Best Children's Game Book Ever
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If you have children or work with kids, it's a MUST!!!
Comprehensive Game BOOK!

Hopscotch, Hangman, Hot Potato, & Ha Ha Ha: A Rulebook of Children's Games
Jack Macguire
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ASIN: 0671763326

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PLAYING RULES FOR MORE THAN 250 GAMES AND SPORTS FOR CHILDREN OF EVERY AGE, INCLUDING INDOOR, OUTDOOR, PARTY, TRAVEL, WATER, MEMORY, AND CARD GAMES

Games galore! From Capture the Flag to Stickball and Volleyball, from Jacks and Old Maid to Word Lightning, here are easy-to-use instructions, recommendations, and scoring for more than 250 popular games and sports for children. Presented in quick-access format, this unique guide is ideal for parents, teachers, adult referees, grandparents, babysitters, and camp counselors. Featuring:

* Games to play on grass, on pavement, on steps and stoops, inside houses for rainy days and parties, and while traveling

* Step-by-step instructions and rules for each game, complete with clear diagrams and line drawings

* Games for children of all ages and playing abilities

* Multiple lists that make it easy for you to find the perfect game for a specific situation (by number of players, etc.)

* The origins of games through interesting anecdotes

* Tips on choosing sides, determining who goes first, selecting who is "It," and more

HAVE FUN!

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Hopscotch,Hangman, Hot Potato& Ha Ha Ha : A Rulebook of Children's Games.......2007-01-14

What a great book, I teach P.E. and do afterscool care, I use this book all the time. It has great games for indoor and outdoors. Get it you won't regret it.

Best Children's Game Book Ever.......2006-04-20

I LOVE this book and I'm not a teacher NOR do I have children (just lots of nieces and nephews)! I've always been a board game fan and this book brings back memories of all the fun we used to have as kids. This is a great book for parents to get kids away from video games and get outside and have fun while being active. It covers almost any children's game you can think of in a manner that touches on all the detail I've forgotten over time. It's divided into chapters such as: Indoor Games; Games to Play on Grass and Playgrounds; Games to play on Pavement, Steps and Stoops; Games in Water; Party Games and Travel Games.

There are games I played that I didn't remember the names or the rules...they're all here. Card games like Old Maid, Fish and Hearts; Paper games like Hangman, Boxes (where you make the dots and connect the lines to form boxes) and String games like Cat's Cradle. There was even the game that you folded the paper and wrote stuff on the inside and you sliped the paper box thing over your fingers to answer the other person's questions. Here it's called Cootie Catcher but I can guarantee we didn't call it that! LOL

Writing this review makes me want to go play some hopscotch! See ya' later.

Great!.......2002-10-01

The best one book for playing games with elementary students. New games, old games, cooperative games, competitive games, variations on games- it's all here. The best money I've spent on a game book- and I've bought four!

If you have children or work with kids, it's a MUST!!!.......2001-08-08

I couldn't put this book down -- it's like reading a best seller! It brought back wonderful memories of my childhood. Games I always wanted to share with my kids, but couldn't remember exactly how to play them are not a problem now. I'm also a new Girl Scout leader (starting my 2nd year) and I know, already, this book will provide hours of fun. **One of the best reference books for entertaining children (and adults) I've come across.

Comprehensive Game BOOK!.......1999-05-16

I love this book! I have used it so much I had to order a second copy. As a teacher, I have used many of these games to play with my class during recess, on school trips, and after a lesson is finished. The book is easy to use for any age or interest level. These are the games I remember playing as a kid. I highly recommend you buy it!

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Ross To The Rescue.
How to make fools out of every Intelligence service
fabulous espionage thriller
Different but Excellant!
Spy put out into the cold wants back in for his own reasons

Hopscotch (Otto Penzler Presents...)
Brian Garfield
Manufacturer: Forge Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0765309211
Release Date: 2004-08-12

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Since being forced into retirement by the CIA, Miles Kendig had tried everything in an effort to satisfy his hunger for excitement. But he could not recreate the ultimate conflict of life or death with no rules, the experience of pitting himself against the enemy with no holds barred.Despite his bitterness at being shelved by the CIA, Miles was still scrupulously American--so when he found himself tempted by an offer from the Russians, he realized the time had come for him to put up or give up.Miles has been waiting, carefully planning, for years--and, finally, he's ready. By threatening to expose the espionage secrets of the major powers, he set himself up as the quarry of an international manhunt. Now he would either prove to himself that after twenty-five years of playing the game he was still a winner, or he would meet his death at the hands of younger men.

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Ross To The Rescue........2006-07-27

Using the child's game of Hopscotch with chalk on pavement where the player hops on one foot without touching a chalk line, the protaganist has devised an unending search-and-capture game with himself as the pawn. What Miles, former CIA agent, plays is not a child's game where he could be cornered, but more dangerous, as he tried to outwit both the CIA and KGB as he hops here and yonder, taking his followers on a wild goose chase. The game had to be played on its own terms, not the terms of its speculative consequences. He hopped from country to country, just ahead of his pursuers. Cynicism and defeat were their religions.

He was seen by Leonard Ross in Mobile, Alabama, where he copied his expose of th CIA, making fifteen copies of 220 pages. From there, he was tracked to Pensacola, Tampa, and Sarasota, Florida, before scooting off to Madrid, Spain. His manuscript, when published, would reveal the secrets to which he'd been privy of the spy activities on both sides. This was a game with no rules and, if successful, he'd get what he wanted and sweet revenge. If caught by Ross or others before his book could be released to the public, he might have to settle for a sweet surrender.

It was a clever cat-and-mouse adventure as he kept one step ahead and had fun deceiving his former bosses with a bit of global excitement. The fun part of being a secret agent with ability to write and to hide. He became weary after a while and realized that the agents paid to find him were "lost souls who'd settled years ago for the usual hypocries and specious rationalizations." A rage to survive was a natural thing. Everybody has it. Everybody has a right to it. Will he survive or will he give in to pressure of the chase.

How to make fools out of every Intelligence service.......2005-09-23

Miles Kendig is a retired CIA spy who is dying slowly of boredom. Unable to adjust to his forced retirement after a life living on the edge, he is inspired after a meeting with an old adversary to write his memoirs. That is the last thing his former employers had counted on because Miles knows a lot more about their dirty tricks than they ever imagined - and he knows how to run circles around his hunters when he invites them to try and stop him.

This book was written in the 70s during the cold war and was later made into an entertaining movie. Despite the age, the story has held up well. Kendig is not James Bond, but he's not stupid either as he takes both the CIA, KGB and MI5 on a merry chase. This book held me easily to the end of the story, though its not quite the same as movie it easy to see its source in this book.

fabulous espionage thriller.......2004-09-23

Though supposed to be above politics, the Agency is embroiled in internal politics that reacts to external pressures from the White House and Congress. Thus, it is not surprising that his employers force long time out in the cold agent Miles Kendig to retire. A man used to living beyond the edge in which every breath could mean death, Miles finds middle age life in America boring as he misses the adrenalin rush that his field missions provided him.

Several years pass. Miles is ready to get back in the game on his terms. This time he will be a rogue exposing the world espionage units to the public as unscrupulous dirty tricks in which murder or ruining someone is a way of life and collateral damage is acceptable as long as the mission is accomplished. Competing spy agencies form strange bedfellows with one quest: destroy Miles before he exposes them. Gleefully, Miles, a veteran of twenty-five years of field work, looks forward to the ultimate cat and mouse game, in which he tossed down the gauntlet.

This is a terrific spy thriller that sort of reminded this reviewer more of the Bourne Identity (second movie) than the Mathau film Hopscotch. Though the novel is from the late 1960s early 1970s, the story line remains fresh because the Cold War is more of a backdrop except that d'entente existed when it is convenient for all parties to fight the common cause, a lone ranger. That intrepid individualism that is rare to see in a society filled with profiles and spin doctors is what makes Brian Garfield's thriller hold up as a fabulous espionage thriller.

Harriet Klausner

Different but Excellant!.......2003-12-04

I was first introduced to Hopscotch "The Movie" and when I finally found the DVD version I decided to get the book to see what differences I would find.

The differences are vast, yet not to far apart. I found the book excellant. I preferred the personality of the books character as to the overall story and I also found the movie character extreamly satisfying.

I have both now and have enjoyed them in their own right. The movie is timeless and the book well worth several readings over time.

Get the book, get the DVD, enjoy both and expect differences that will not detract from either.

Spy put out into the cold wants back in for his own reasons.......2001-10-12

Miles Kendig is a man with a mission--his own. When he is forcibly retired from service in the Agency (CIA), he comes up with a plan to put himself back in the hotseat: exposing the dirty tricks the Agency has played. Of course, this irritates his former employer and a world-wide manhunt is on. I bought this book thinking it would flesh out some of the details the movie, which I dearly love, wasn't able to expand upon. What I found was that the two are quite dissimilar. The premise is the same, as are the names of most of the characters, but don't for a minute think if you've seen the movie, the book is redundant. It's a different story in many ways. If you enjoy an extremely well thought-out, well-timed and well-researched edge of your seat novel, this is the one. The movie, a delightful comedy starring Walter Matthau, is in a much lighter vein. I unreservedly recommend both. And I plan on finding more of Mr. Garfield's books!

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Let's Play Hopscotch (Play Time)
Sarah Hughes
Manufacturer: Children's Press (CT)
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Great recess resource!

Hopscotch Around the World
Mary D. Lankford
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ASIN: 0688147453

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All you need is a rock, some chalk, and a friend to join in the fun

Hopscotch has been played throughout history in nearly every country in the world. From Alaska to Aruba, Italy to India, Bolivia to Brooklyn, here are nineteen versions of this classic game. Complete with rules, patterns, and interesting facts, this is an unrivaled look at a timeless, universal game of childhood.

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Great recess resource!.......2001-05-15

I've used this book as a recess activity. I made a spinning wheel with all the variations of hopscotch that are listed in the book. The students spin the wheel, draw the game they land on and play. Great activity! Gets all the students involved! I'm amazed at the HUGE variety of hopscotch games. What a lot of fun!

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Good Sport Gwen

Good Sport Gwen (Hopscotch Hill School)
Valerie Tripp
Manufacturer: American Girl
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ASIN: 1584859016

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Good Sport Gwen.......2004-12-04

Gwen, Sports star, is determined to win. Too bad her Spelling Bee team can't seem to win! Frustrated and angry over losing, Gwen learns about good sports through Miss Sparks and from her classmates. Includes notes for parents on sportsmanship and teaching good sportsmanship, as well as activities to encourage good sportsmanship.

Children's Games with Things: Marbles, Fivestones, Throwing and Catching, Gambling, Hopscotch, Chucking and Pitching, Ball-Bouncing, Skipping, Tops and Tipcat

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Children's Games with Things: Marbles, Fivestones, Throwing and Catching, Gambling, Hopscotch, Chucking and Pitching, Ball-Bouncing, Skipping, Tops and Tipcat
Iona Opie , and Peter Opie
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0192159631

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Iona Opie and the late Peter Opie have devoted their lives to the study of children. Now comes the final volume of their acclaimed trilogy on children's games. Together with Children's Games in Street & Playground (1969) and The Singing Game (1985), this volume completes the most comprehensive
study this century.
Based on thirty years of research, this intriguing volume focuses on games that use equipment of one kind or another--marbles, jump rope, balls--describing in colorful detail the objects used, the rules of play, and the accompanying rhymes and chants. The Opies examine the history of the games
from their earliest appearance and they consider the wider social context, tracing the varying attitudes towards them over the past three hundred years, from pedagogical disapproval, to legal suppression, to the sentimental nostalgia of the present.
Here then is the world of play, the imaginary space into which our young ones escape each day. Children's Games With Things is an evocation of this imaginary world as well as a reminder of our own past.

Pattern Trains & Hopscotch Paths: Exploring Pattern (Investigations in Number, Data, and Space Series)

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Hands-On Learning

Pattern Trains & Hopscotch Paths: Exploring Pattern (Investigations in Number, Data, and Space Series)
Rebeka Eston , and Karen Economopopulos
Manufacturer: Dale Seymour Publications
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ASIN: 1572329270

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Hands-On Learning.......2000-06-18

I used this book as a guide to teaching Patterns to a Kindergarten class during my Student-Teaching this past year. As with the other Investigations units I have had experience with, I find the results to be absolutely amazing. The activities are fun for the students and well-organized for the teacher. At the same time, there is a lot of flexibility allowed for the educator to adapt the curriculum to his/her own teaching methods. It's just a great resource to use in the classroom!

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Outstanding

Hopscotch
Denyse Devlin
Manufacturer: Penguin
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 184488063X

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Outstanding.......2006-07-22

I discovered Denyse Devlin / Woods by accident when I picked up The Catalpa Tree in England a year ago. Since then she has become my favorite author, and this book--although quite different to The Catalpa Tree--is equally compelling. You could not have pried it out of my hands. Once I had started, I had to keep reading.

It's an uplifting story of the bonds of friendship, of doing the right thing of--as Daniel says--good things happening during bad times.

The plot is gripping, the characters unique. I especially loved the heroine's father: a 50 something rock star who relinquished fame to be a stay-at-home dad.

It has the feel of chick lit, but the substance of a more literary read. I would give it more than 5 stars if I could ...

Hopscotch, Hangman and Hot Potato, Ha Ha Ha

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Hopscotch, hangman, hot-potato, and ha, ha, ha

Hopscotch, Hangman and Hot Potato, Ha Ha Ha
Maguire
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0136311024

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Hopscotch, hangman, hot-potato, and ha, ha, ha.......2005-06-18

This is one of the best books of children's games. I checked it out of the library for my Brownie troop and am now buying a copy. A must have for anyone that needs to entertain children, large or small groups, inside or outside.

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