Download or read book Why People Play written by Michael J. Ellis and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book ... is designed to influence the provisions for play in the home, in the day-care or child development center, in the school, and in the provision of adult leisure services ... It is a critical analysis of the content and assumptions of the many theories or explanations for play behavior."--p. xii.