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The Case For Make Believe Susan Linn

The Case For Make Believe By Susan Linn

The Case For Make Believe by Susan Linn


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A clairion call for preserving play in a material world. A book every parent will want to read.

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The Case For Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World by Susan Linn

Gripping stories of children at home, school and in the therapist's office using make believe to grapple with real-life issues from entertaining kindergarten to the death of a sibling. In an age when toys come from television shows and dress-up means Disney costumes, Linn lays out the inextricable links between play, creativity and health, showing why society should protect children from corporations that aim to limit their imaginations.

The Case For Make Believe Reviews

"A wonderful look at how playing can heal children, how in "pretend-worlds" they can find their truest selves. [Linn's] fierce advocacy for kids is on every page of this terrific book."
-The Boston Globe

"[A] welcome addition to such books as D.W. Winnicott's Playing and Reality, Bruno
Bettleheim's The Uses of Enchantment, and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow."
-Library Journal

"Linn brings invaluable expertise to this well-organized and straightforward exploration of a neglected subject."
-Booklist

About Susan Linn

Susan Linn, author of Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood (The New Press), is a psychologist at Judge Baker Children's Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston. An award-winning ventriloquist internationally recognized for her pioneering work using puppet therapy with children, she was mentored by the late Fred Rogers.

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CIN1565849701G
9781565849709
1565849701
The Case For Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World by Susan Linn
Used - Good
Hardback
The New Press
2008-06-26
288
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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