Alexander Bunyip, created by children's author and illustrator Michael Salmon, first appeared in print in The Monster That Ate Canberra in 1972, Alexander Bunyip went on to appear in many other books and a live-action television series, Alexander Bunyip's Billabong.

Although he is depicted as a peaceful king in children's books, he in fact waged many victorious wars and was readying for others just before he died.

Although, originally conceived as a children's programme, it quickly acquired a cult crossover following amongst many adults, including future Pythons John Cleese and Graham Chapman ( as mentioned by Cleese himself in the " Paying my ex-wife " stage performance tour, October 2010 ).

There are many instances in children's literature where a person's claim to be only a quarter of their actual age turns out to be based on counting their leap-year birthdays.

There are many forms of folklore that are so common, however, that most people do not realize they are folklore, such as riddles, children's rhymes and ghost stories, rumors ( including conspiracy theories ), gossip, ethnic stereotypes, and holiday customs and life-cycle rituals.

It appears in many works of children's literature.

The most telling passage reads: " We have an example of these things ( that act on the senses ) in sound and fire of that children's toy which is made in many parts of the world ; i. e. a device no bigger than one's thumb.

Its magnificence has impressed heads of state, and it has witnessed many different types of events, from formal civil ones to record launches, fashion shows, children's Christmas parties and private functions.

Some natural languages have become naturally " standardized " by children's natural tendency to correct for illogical grammar structures in their parents ' language, which can be seen in the development of pidgin languages into creole languages ( as explained by Steven Pinker in The Language Instinct ), but this is not the case in many languages, including constructed languages such as Esperanto, where strict rules are in place as an attempt to consciously remove such irregularities.

Most nursery rhymes were not written down until the 18th century, when the publishing of children's books began to move from polemic and education towards entertainment, but there is evidence for many rhymes existing before this, including " To market, to market " and " Cock a doodle doo ", which date from at least the late 16th century.

* In an episode of Codename: Kids Next Door entitled " Operation S. A. F. E. T. Y ", an ambassador for children's health decided to build many giant robots to prevent children from playing harmful games.

For many years children's books stated and still do, that the decline in the beaver population was due to the fur trade.

Its children's programming featured many cartoons and some live-action series ( particularly fantasy action programs ) including Power Rangers ( currently airing on Nickelodeon ), Bobby's World, X-Men, The Tick, Eerie, Indiana and Goosebumps.

Historian Robert Morrow, in his book Sesame Street and the Reform of Children's Television, which chronicled the show's influence on children's television and on the television industry as a whole, reported that many critics of commercial television saw Sesame Street as a " straightforward illustration for reform ".

Miffy was designed as a children's book character, but the design is now used on many other things like clothes, stationery, toys, glasses, household items etc.

Wozniak's songs run in many different styles: some are modern folk music ; many have undertones reminiscent of children's songs ; the blurred sound of psychedelia makes appearances ; and then there are the songs with a clear rock sound.

" Sometimes no agreement can be reached even on whether a given work is best categorized as adult or children's literature, and many books are marketed for both adults and children.

Early children's books like Orbis Pictus were illustrated by woodcut, and many times the same image was repeated in a number of books regardless of how appropriate the illustration was to the story.

Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic in many western children's instruments, or chromatic for orchestral use.

Professor Russel B. Nye of Michigan State University countered that " if the message of the Oz books — love, kindness, and unselfishness make the world a better place — seems of no value today ", then maybe the time is ripe for " reassess a good many other things besides the Detroit library's approved list of children's books ".

More recently, most of these courses have been abolished, and many youths in high school and college would be more likely to study child development and the management of children's behavior.

However kanji are still used in preference over kana in many contexts, and a large part of children's schooling is learning kanji.

Thus shielded, we played many foolish games in comfortable unselfconsciousness ; ;

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

Like many games of its time, Asteroids contains several bugs that were mostly the result of the original programmers underestimating the game's popularity or the skill of its players.

The gameplay in Asteroids was imitated by many games that followed.

Anagrams are in themselves a recreational activity, but they also make up part of many other games, puzzles and game shows.

The idea that role-playing games are an art form took strong root in this zine, and left a lasting impression on many of the RPG professionals who contributed.

There were also many popular games officially converted to the Electron from arcade machines ( including Crystal Castles, Tempest, Commando, Paperboy and Yie Ar Kung-Fu ) or other home computer systems ( including Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, The Way of the Exploding Fist, Tetris, The Last Ninja, Barbarian and SimCity ).

This instantly broke Victoria's stranglehold over state titles and Western Australia and South Australia began to win many of their games against Victoria.

As with most game consoles, there were many more games in development for the 7800 than were actually released.

Today, as with many older consoles, there is still a small group of devoted fans, creating and selling games for the system.

In addition, Atari's use of exclusive rights to many games made it virtually impossible for Emerson to get popular games to the console.

* The amphisbaena is also a common enemy in many Castlevania games, however its appearance slightly differs.

There are many different types and styles of board games.

A player may be hampered by a few poor rolls of the dice in Risk or Monopoly, but over many games a good player will win more often.

German-style board games are notable for often having rather less of a luck factor than many North American board games.

Although many board games have a jargon all their own, there is a generalized terminology to describe concepts applicable to basic game mechanics and attributes common to nearly all board games.

Most games use a standardized and unchanging board ( chess, Go, and backgammon each have such a board ), but many games use a modular board whose component tiles or cards can assume varying layouts from one session to another, or even while the game is played.

This is most often used in wargaming, though many abstract strategy games such as Abalone, Agon, hexagonal chess, and connection games use hexagonal layouts.

Doom from id Software and many Apogee games were distributed as shareware.