Looking at this book now in the age of PC, I can see how some people could find some of the content offensive. But they have to realize that this captures folklore that wasn't considered offensive at the time. The book has some really funny jokes and games from childhood...remember making fortune tellers, jacobs ladders, cats cradle? Ooh, and the: "My mom will kill me if she heard me tell one single dead baby joke".I first purchased this book in 1988 to have on hand when my neices and nephew's visited me. I then lent it to a few people through out the years, I recently had to replace it because my children just plain wore the book out.