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The brightening glance : imagination and childhood / Ellen Handler Spitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spitz, Ellen Handler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imagination in children.
- Aesthetics.
- Awe.
- Wonder.
- Child development.
- Child psychology.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 250 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2006]
- Summary:
- With the voice of a poet and the eye of an artist, the author returns readers to the vibrant experience of childhood to explain how the imagination emerges and develops during a child's primary years, between 2-12 years old. Teachers/parents.
- Contents:
- 1 The Magnifying Gaze of Children 3
- 2 Between the Generations 30
- 3 I Want Music! 63
- 4 What Is Too Scary? 95
- 5 Children's Rooms, Sites of Refuge, and Being Lost 133
- 6 Treasures 167
- 7 Today Is My Birthday 179
- 8 Imagination as a Key to the Future 202.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-237) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0375420584
- OCLC:
- 60715321
- Publisher Number:
- 9780375420580
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