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Winner of the 2010 Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year for Older Children (age range 8 to 14 years)
Parlor Games for Modern Families sets out to revive the tradition of indoor family games: push aside the consoles, turn off the telly, and bring some mental stimulation, silliness and laughter, joy and connection back into your living room.
This book is bursting with games of logic and memory, wordplay, card games, role-play, and rough and tumble. Not a single game requires equipment that you won’t find in your average home: a pack of cards, a dictionary, an hourglass, dice, paper and pen.
Games are organized thematically and referenced for age appropriateness. All are set out with clear rules and instructions. There are games that will challenge and stimulate you, and games that will have you in fits; games that can last all night, and games to fill that empty half-hour before tea; games for adults and older children, and games for your four-year-old’s birthday party.
Parlor Games for Modern Families, a book for fun-lovers aged four to 104, winds back the clock to remind you of games you’d forgotten and then a whole lot more. Whether you dip into it as the urge takes you or read it from cover to cover, a very good time is guaranteed.
“I was expecting to meet with a wall of resistance from our computerized children. But far from it: they all eagerly threw themselves into the game, and absolutely loved it … It was the same with all the games we have tried from this marvelous book.”
—Tom Hodgkinson, The Guardian
“Here's a book brimful of ideas for family fun—and there are no power cords or batteries involved! Great games and ideas to entertain on holidays—and more.”
—Julie Redlich, Woman's Day
“In this day and age, it's hard to prise the kids away from their electronic equipment (TV, computers, game consoles and on the list goes), not to mention you, the parent from your chores. But this little corker of a book should help you out. Written by two mothers, it’s packed full of fabulous games that families used to play years ago … Gather up the clan into one room, choose a game (Farkle, Pontoon, Flip the Kipper or Picture Consequences, perhaps) and have a bit of genuine fun, and family time.”
—Herald Sun
“Wink Murder, Memory, Charades, Twenty Questions—the authors of this book sat musing over all the forgotten parlor games they used to play as children and decided they wanted a book of games, so they wrote it. With a passionate introduction that calls for the reintroduction of parlor games into family life, the authors put forward a case for family members connecting with each other via old-fashioned unplugged fun.”
—Sunday Mail