author/illustrator: Carole Saturno/Fanny Dreyer
ages: 5+
128 pages
24 x 29.5 cm
Otabind binding and dust jacket to unfold
La Partie
Come and Play!
About this book
A fascinating exploration of the world of play in all its forms!
We now know how important play is for children’s social, emotional, and psychomotor development. Halfway between non-fiction book and activity book, this work takes a broad and varied look at play.
Throughout 8 chapters, Carole Saturno and Fanny Dreyer invite readers to play, not with manufactured objects, but rather by building, imitating, repurposing, appropriating spaces, inhabiting miniature worlds, finding special opportunities to play in each season, or simply drawing, singing, and more.In short, they offer resources for “possible games” in many
circumstances and places.
• A large number of practical steps for making masks, salt dough, or tinsels, building huts or puppet theatre, and more.• Each section also provides information placing the game and act of playing in their historical, social, and environmental context.
• The cover unfolds into a poster featuring several templates to create kites, piñatas…BY THE SAME ILLUSTRATOR