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Direct linkCarrick, Nathalie; Richmond, Rebecca – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This study examined parent-child storytelling for insights into children's fantastical thinking. We targeted differences in storytelling based on story genre (fictional-reality and fictional-fantasy) emotion, and storyteller, and how dyads treated fantasy within the stories. 49 3- to 5-year-olds and their parents told stories based on images that…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Fantasy, Parent Child Relationship, Child Development
Peer reviewedBishop, J. K. – Early Child Development and Care, 1989
Formats the course of children's fantasy in relation to time and experience. Describes a model for understanding the relation between fantasy and development. (RJC)
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Fantasy, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedStrayer, Janet – Early Child Development and Care, 1995
Investigated North American children's and adults' familiarity with, and liking for, fairy tales. Results support the hypotheses that children's liking for fairy tales relates significantly to their involvement in imagining activities and that more general imagining involvements are likely to be associated with, or to mediate differences in, the…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Emotional Development
