Welcome to Our Playground: A celebration of games children play everywhere
By (Author) Moira Butterfield
Illustrated by Harriet Lynas
Nosy Crow Ltd
Nosy Crow Ltd
2nd July 2024
1st August 2024
United Kingdom
Children
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: General knowledge and interesting facts
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Countries, cultures and national identity
790.1922
Hardback
64
Width 250mm, Height 290mm
Find out how children play all around the world in this beautifully illustrated follow-up to the bestselling Welcome to Our World!
From basketball to board games, clapping games to climbing frames, dens to doll's houses, there are so many ways to play and have fun around the world. In this fascinating book, young children can learn all about the different games, toys and playtimes around the world, as well as the playgrounds, fields and beaches children play in, and the many different words they use when they play.
With engaging, colourful artwork on every page by award-winning illustrator Harriet Lynas
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Moira ButterfieldMoira Butterfield lived and travelled inlots of different locations as a child, andstill thinks our world is an endlesslyexciting place to explore. She went onto study literature and become anauthor of children's non-fiction andfiction. She believes there are no limitsto the imagination or to the wonder ofour planet and so she has written aboutmany different subjects, from ancienttreasures to future worlds via pirates,kings, jungles and sea monsters. Moiralives in Bath, Somerset, with her family.She loves to cycle, sew and sing
HarrietLynas
Harriet Lynas is an award-winningBritish-Korean children's bookillustrator who lives in Cambridge withher husband and their son. She hasalways loved doodling since she wasable to hold a pencil and decided tobecome an illustrator at the age of ten.After studying Visual CommunicationDesign at University, Harriet worked asa graphic designer in the fashionindustry before becoming a children'sbook illustrator. When she is notdrawing, she enjoys cooking exoticfoods and country walking.