RetroActive Skip, Hop and You Don't Stop: Games We Played

Team spirit, adventure, fitness, and fun are the name of the game in RetroActive: Skip, Hop and You Don't Stop (Games We Played), a collection of over one hundred old-school games by Tom O'Leary. Parents, camp counselors, physical education instructors, and children themselves will agree that this campy, fun and decidedly retro collection of children’s games and activities from the seventies and eighties hits its mark. In fact, with guidelines for playing such old-time favorites like kick-the-can, cats-get-your-corner, red rover and stickball, O'Leary hits one out of the park. He takes exercise and making merry to a whole new level with ingeniously fun pointers on how to decide who should be "it" in games like monkey-in-the-middle and blind man’s bluff. There are games for the street, courtyard, porch, sidewalk, and backyard. In fact, in this author's mind absolutely anyplace on the planet can become a playground—and any hour can be an active one if you skip, hop, and don’t stop!