Tag, Toss & Run: 40 Classic Lawn Games
A Fun-Filled Antidote for Today's Indoor Lifestyle
"Get OFF THE COUCH and get back outside!"

Rediscover the pleasure of family lawn games with this guide to 40 time-tested favorites--from classics like Capture the Flag, Croquet, Badminton, and Bocce to the lesser-known Cherokee Marbles, Cornhole, and Kubb. The authors offer a quick overview of the basic structure of each game, as well as strategies for playing and tips for creating fun variations. The book is also full of historical anecdotes and illustrations, making the book a great read as well as a great resource. 

Price: $14.95

About The Authors

An actress, advocate, mother and best-selling author, VICTORIA ROWELL received The African American Literary Award and two NAACP Image Award nominations for her memoir, The Women Who Raised Me.  She is an icon in daytime television as the feisty Drucilla Winters on CBS's highly-rated daytime series, "The Young and the Restless." She has been nominated twice for a Daytime Emmy and awarded 12 NAACP Image Awards. She also co-starred in the CBS hit primetime television series “Diagnosis Murder” with Dick Van Dyke for eight seasons while simultaneously continuing her role in daytime. She also founded the Rowell Foster Children’s Positive Plan (RFCPP) in 1990 and has since almost single-handedly made foster care a nationally recognized cause.

American journalist, author, filmmaker and motivational public speaker and father, PAUL TUKEY is a past winner of the prestigious Horticultural Communicator of the Year Award from the American Horticultural Society. Mr. Tukey penned the best-selling book, The Organic Lawn Care Manual in 2007. Lauded for his ability to turn a mundane subject — lawn care — into a rousing public discourse, he has been featured in thousands of media outlets from Good Morning America in the U.S., to the CBC in Canada, as well as National Geographic, Readers Digest and the New York Times, which called him “The godfather of the natural lawn care movement.” In 2006, he founded the non-profit SafeLawns Foundation to advance the cause of environmental stewardship.

"Never has outdoor play been more important. It's one of the best gifts you can give your child for cultivating health and creativity. I love Tag, Toss, & Run because it inspires healthy activity. Families will love it because it's a treasure map to fun."

Alan Greene, MD, FAAP
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine
Author Raising Baby Green and Feeding Baby Green
Founder, DrGreene.com

"“The state of play today is sad, it really is.  I played everything outdoors growing up in Denver. Everything. Baseball. Softball. Just a ball and a stick was all you needed. You went outdoors after breakfast and you didn’t come indoors until the lights came on at night. Tag was big. Huge. Everyone in the apartment complex would play Tag together for hours on end. Or Hide and Seek. The entire complex would go hide and we’d spend hours finding everyone. It’s how we built our relationships and learned to relate to other human beings and, especially, to nature. The religious opiate these days is television, and entertainment and celebrity. As parents who want our children to have that connection to nature, how do we compete with American Idol, or So You Think You Can Dance. That immediate gratification ethic flies in the face of appreciating a tree that took 125 years to grow. We can't ever go all the way back to the way it used to be, but we can't relegate outdoor childhood to memory either. This project is a wonderful, timely idea."

Actor Don Cheadle