Cubby-hole

This article is about the children's hideaway. For the film, see Cubbyhouse. For the mailbox, see pigeon-hole messagebox. For the New York bar, see Cubbyhole (lesbian bar).
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Cubby-hole used by Benny Benson
Modern cubby house designed for children's play[1]

A cubby-hole, cubby-house or cubby is a small play house, or play area, for children.[2] This may be constructed by the children themselves and used as a place of play.[3] Children may have a small shed, play-house or tent which they use as a cubby-house.[4] Children might build their own in various places in the house or garden, or have a pre-fabricated cubby. An Australian fictional treatment of the quest for the perfect cubby can be found in Ursula Dubosarsky's The Cubby House, illustrated by Mitch Vane.[5]

  1. ^ Country, Cubbies. "Modern cubby house designs". Retrieved 2012-12-29.
  2. ^ "Of the Dorset dialect", Transactions of the Philological Society, B.Blackwell: 51, 1864
  3. ^ Karen Stagnitti (2000), Playthings, pp. 25–26, ISBN 978-1-876367-61-9
  4. ^ Gwenda Davey; Graham Seal (1993), The Oxford companion to Australian folklore, p. 90, ISBN 978-0-19-553057-5
  5. ^ The Cubby House: Aussie Nibbles Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine