List of Figures

Introduction
The Story of Worldplay

Acknowledgments

Part One: Discovering Worldplay Where It Grows
Chapter 1:
Hidden Worlds of Play: A Journey Through the Land of Kar

Chapter 2:
Searching for Paracosms: How One Man Found the Imaginary Worlds of Childhood

Chapter 3:
Memory Counts: MacArthur Fellows and College Students Recall Childhood Play

Part Two: Exploring the Gardens of Make-Believe

Chapter 4:
Pretense and Place: The Poetics of Play in Middle Childhood

Chapter 5:
Imaginary Countries and Gifted Play: First Investigations of 'Creative IQ'

Chapter 6:
A Learning Laboratory in Creative Practice: Plumbing the Plausible Imagination

Part Three: Grafting Worldplay to Adult Work

Chapter 7:
The Maturation of Creative Imagination: Robert Louis Stevenson as Mentor

Chapter 8:
Worldplay at Work: MacArthur Fellows Straddle a Creative Divide

Chapter 9:
The Worldplay Avocation-Vocation: Case Studies in Creative Polymathy

Part 4: Sowing the Seeds of Worldplay

Chapter 10:
Imaginary World Invention Goes to School: An Argument for Playful Learning
Chapter 11:
Worldplay the Computer Way: Children and Youth Reveal Their Lived Experience

Chapter 12:
The Creative Capital of Make-Believe: How to Support Children Playing at Their Best
Conclusion.
Wither the Worldplay Impulse?

Appendix. A Childhood Worldplay List

Endnotes

Bibliography