The Ultimate Book of Family Card Games [Paperback]

Pick a card game—any game! Everyone loves to play cards, and this ultimate collection has all the fun favorites, including rummy, spades, war, old maid, go fish, snip snap snorem, and hearts. There are over 50 games in all, organized by type and difficulty, and complete with instructions, rules, strategies, color illustrations, and a brief note on each one's origins.

Pick a card game—any game! Everyone loves to play cards, and this ultimate collection has all the fun favorites, including rummy, spades, war, old maid, go fish, snip snap snorem, and hearts. There are over 50 games in all, organized by type and difficulty, and complete with instructions, rules, strategies, color illustrations, and a brief note on each one's origins.

Oliver Ho has published numerous books for children, and his work has appeared in many print and online publications, includingDescant,The New Quarterly, and PopMatters.com. He is the Front Page Editor at two of the largest web portals in Canada: MSN Canada and Yahoo! Canada. Ho received his BFA from York University, where he was awarded the President's Prize for Poetry. He lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.