When June Factor launched Far Out, Brussel Sprout! 30 years ago this December, she had no idea the book of children's rhymes, games and puzzles would become a popular series still being published today, with the latest called Okey Dokey Karaoke!
Yet children are tradition's warmest friends; they were conservationists long before adults ever heard the word. In their games, rhymes, jokes and chants, children continue to preserve a culture – mostly invisible to adults – that stretches back hundreds of years.