The House of Make-Believe

Children's Play and the Developing Imagination

Dorothy G. Singer

Jerome L. Singer

    1. Memories of Childhood Play

    2. Imagination: The Realm of the Possible

    3. The Beginnings of Pretending and Baby Play

    4. The High Season of Imaginative Play

    5. Imaginary Playmates and Imaginary Worlds

    6. Cognitive and Emotional Growth through Play

    7. Creating an Environment for Imaginative Play

    8. Television-Viewing and the Imagination

    9. Play as Healing

    10. When Imaginative Play Goes Underground: Fantasy in Middle Childhood

    11. Toward the Creative Adult

    Notes

    Index

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Dorothy G. Singer is Senior Research Scientist in the Psychology Department at Yale University, where she co-directs the Yale Family Television Research and Consultation Center.

Jerome L. Singer is Professor Emeritus in the Psychology Department at Yale University, where he co-directs the Yale Family Television Research and Consultation Center.