ORPP logo
Image from Google Jackets

The House of Make-Believe : Children's Play and the Developing Imagination.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1990Copyright date: ©1990Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (352 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674043688
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The House of Make-BelieveDDC classification:
  • 155.4/18
LOC classification:
  • BF717
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- 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.
Summary: In the most thorough attempt to cover all aspects of children's make-believe, Dorothy and Jerome Singer examine how imaginative play begins and develops, from the infant's first smiles to the toddler's engagement in social pretend play.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Intro -- Contents -- 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.

In the most thorough attempt to cover all aspects of children's make-believe, Dorothy and Jerome Singer examine how imaginative play begins and develops, from the infant's first smiles to the toddler's engagement in social pretend play.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

© 2024 Resource Centre. All rights reserved.