Thirty-nine essays explore the vast diversity of video game history and culture across all the world's continents. Video games have become a global industry, an

Tells how to play more than one hundred games that are played by children throughout the world, ranging from board games and jacks to jumping and hand games.

It may seem obvious to adults, but many young readers don't yet know that all cultures have the same kinds of activities. We all cook, we all entertain ourselve

Describes the games that children play in different countries of the world, including the Excited Burro in Cuba and dreidel in Israel.

A leading inventor and collector of games, Sid Sackson is also an expert on game history. For this highly entertaining volume, the self-proclaimed "game addict"