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The House of Make-Believe: Play and the Developing Imaginationreviewed by Leah Levinger - 1991 Title: The House of Make-Believe: Play and the Developing Imagination Author(s): Doroth G. Singer, Jerome L. Singer Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge ISBN: 0674408756, Pages: , Year: 1990 Search for book at Amazon.com It is appropriate that a book on fantasy evoke fantasies in the reader. Throughout the chapter on the middle years I found myself repeatedly responding with a host of long forgotten, now recaptured episodes. An ebullient fantasy in response to the entire book was to buy copies for all my colleagues.
This is a rare blend of rich, careful scholarship, lucid style, and vivid, poignant examples. Investigators of creativity and giftedness and imagination are all too often pedestrian thinkers. But not here. These are people of high imagination. They freely draw on memories from their own childhood and youth. Much poetry, fiction, and autobiography is used and treated with the same respect as the technical literature. Their own research of almost forty years and that of many other investigators is integrated. Scientific data are intermixed with informal observations of grandchildren. The material is intrinsically related to theoretical constructs. The age span... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Leah Levinger
Bank Street College of Education
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