The Case For Make Believe

Saving Play in a Commercialized World

Susan Linn

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English

The New Press
07 October 2009

Child care & upbringing

In The Case for Make Believe, Harvard child psychologist Susan Linn tells the alarming story of childhood under siege in a commercialized and technology-saturated world. Although play is essential to human development and children are born with an innate capacity for make believe, Linn argues that, in modern-day America, nurturing creative play is not only countercultural-it threatens corporate profits.

A book with immediate relevance for parents and educators alike, The Case for Make Believe helps readers understand how crucial child's play is-and what parents and educators can do to protect it. At the heart of the book are stories of children at home, in school, and at a therapist's office playing about real-life issues from entering kindergarten to a sibling's death, expressing feelings they can't express directly, and making meaning of an often confusing world.

In an era when toys come from television and media companies sell videos as brain-builders for babies, Linn lays out the inextricable links between play, creativity, and

health, showing us how and why to preserve the space for make believe that children need to lead fulfilling and meaningful lives.

By: Susan Linn
Imprint: The New Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 409g
ISBN: 9781565849709
ISBN 10: 1565849701
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 07 October 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for The Case For Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World

"""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"