Invisible Companions: Encounters with Imaginary Friends, Gods, Ancestors, and Angels

by J Bradley Wigger and J. Bradley Wigger

Book Overview

From the US to Nepal, author J. Bradley Wigger travels five countries on three continents to hear children describe their invisible friends--one-hundred-year-old robins and blue dogs, dinosaurs and teapots, pretend families and shape-shifting aliens--companions springing from the deep well of childhood imagination. Drawing on these interviews, as well as a new wave of developmental research, he finds a fluid and flexible quality to the imaginative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503609111
• ISBN13: 9781503609112
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"