It’s time to have some fun in life and this book will get you and children you know, started down the game road fast. Covering both old familiar favorite games and newer variations, everything you need to know to have fun is provided: instructions, number of players needed and rules of the game. Let’s get out of your screen face and move around some with this essential game book.
— Ralph Scott, editor, NC Libraries
Childhood play is an integral component in the development of children. If you are motivated to
incorporate the art of play into the learning environments of children, The Value of Games:
Putting Play Back into Practice for Children is the text for you. Let’s play! Tag you're it!
— Teresa H. Cowan, NC DKG President, Retired Educator, 2012 PAEMST Recipient
This is a valuable book for youth/children’s group leaders, home-schooling, senior day centers, senior living homes, and parents. The volume includes a variety of games from quiet time ones (like guessing games), to group activities (jumping and running), to relays (quiet ones as well as creative ones), and even those involving songs and dancing. A must for the resource libraries in day cares, camping facilities, churches, scouting and other youth activity providers, and other educators of children. It will bring back memories of play before electronics.
— Diane D. Kester, associate professor emerita; managing editor, Theory & Practice in Rural Education; production editor, Journal of Multilingual Education Research
In an age of screen-time overload, Kaye Dotson offers the antidote to devices...GAMES! The Value of Games is a walk down memory lane and a reminder of the lost art of play. This timeless book equips educators, parents and caregivers with the simple tools they need to foster imagination, reinforce values, instill leadership skills and most importantly allow children to play and to have fun.
— Laura Beacher Long, MLS, NBCT, school librarian, North Carolina School Library Media Association President (2019-2020)