JoseBellido and KathyBowrey, Adventures in Childhood: Intellectual Property, Imagination and the Business of Play, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 250pp, hb, £85.00

University of New South Wales) brings intellectual property (IP) law analysis to one of the most interesting and contested areas of sociological theory and practice: children at play.It is commonly accepted that 'childhood' is a socialised practice, one that can vary in distinct contexts, from state to state, habitation to habitation, with different norms and age brackets.Meanwhile, many, if not all, parents would acknowledge the significant impact that mass consumerism and widespread advertising have on their children's playtime.Nonetheless, there is much about childish play that remains mysterious.Broadly concentrating on the UK jurisdiction, the authors evaluate the issue of how, perhaps unexpectedly, the norms of intellectual property have come to influence the construction of British childhood.