A collection of jump-rope and other play rhymes from seventeen countries, including Brazil, India, Israel, Greece, Armenia, and the United States, in both English and the original language.

Juxtaposes black-and-white photographs of houses in Hatfield, Massachusetts taken between 1882 and 1907 with color photographs of the same houses taken in the late 1990s, and features text that offers comparisons of life in the different eras.