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Imaginary companions

Here are entered works on imaginary characters created primarily by young children to fulfill a variety of roles.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Child psychology

• Imaginary companions -- Comic books, strips, etc.
• Imaginary companions -- Juvenile poetry

• Companions, Imaginary
• Friends, Imaginary
• Imaginary friends
• Imaginary playmates
• Playmates, Imaginary
• Imaginary friend

• Gingerbread Girl (2011), by Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover (page images with commentary at topshelfcomix.com)

• The Centaur (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2007), by May Swenson, illust. by Sherry Meidell (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• No Fear: Growing Up in a Risk Averse Society (London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2007), by Tim Gill (PDF with commentary at gulbenkian.org.uk)
• Spanking: Questions and Answers About Disciplinary Violence (translated from the 2005 edition, with added commentary; 2009), by Olivier Maurel, trans. by Tom Johnson, contrib. by Alice Miller (HTML at nospank.net)
• For Every Child a Healthy Personality: A Digest of the Fact-Finding Report to the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth (c1950), by Mid-century White House Conference on Children and Youth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mental Development in the Child and the Race (New York: Macmillan, 1906), by James Mark Baldwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Psychology and Parenthood (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1915), by H. Addington Bruce (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Scientific Training of Children (Los Angeles: New Literature Pub. Co., 1912), by Christian D. Larson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Über Konflikte der Kindlichen Seele (second edition, in German; Leipzig and Vienna: F. Deuticke, 1916), by C. G. Jung
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Ape and the Child: A Study of Environmental Influence Upon Early Behavior (New York and London: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1933), by W. N. Kellogg and Luella Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychological Service for School Problems (Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Co., c1930), by Gertrude Howell Hildreth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Value of Praise and Reproof as Incentives for Children (Columbia University dissertation, reprinted from Archives of Psychology #71; 1924), by Elizabeth B. Hurlock (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fuentes para el Estudio de la Paidología (in Spanish; Madrid: Imp. de la Revista de arch., bibl. y museos, 1917), by Domingo Barnés (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cherry Feasts for Barbarous Fourths (Watertown, NY: Hungerford-Holbrook Co., 1909), by Asenath Carver Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)

• Poor Miss Finch, by Wilkie Collins
  • HTML at github.io
  • Gutenberg text
• East of Eden (c1952), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Stealth Assessment: Measuring and Supporting Learning in Video Games (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2013), by Valerie J. Shute and Matthew Ventura (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Technical Recommendations for Achievement Tests (1955), by American Educational Research Association and National Council on Measurements Used in Education (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Performance Tests for Children of Pre-School Age (Genetic Psychology Monographs v1 #1; 1926), by Rachel S. Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Individual Differences as Affected by Practice (Archives of Psychology #58, 1922), by Georgina Stickland Gates (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fundamentals of Learning (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1932), by Edward L. Thorndike and Columbia University Teachers College Institute of Psychological Research
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Psychological Service for School Problems (Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Co., c1930), by Gertrude Howell Hildreth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Measuring What Matters Most: Choice-Based Assessments for the Digital Age (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2013), by Daniel L. Schwartz and Dylan Arena (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Machine Scoring of Student Essays: Truth and Consequences (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), ed. by Patricia Freitag Ericsson and Richard H. Haswell (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (2010), by Common Core State Standards Initiative (HTML and PDF at corestandards.org)
• Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (ca. 2010), by Common Core State Standards Initiative (HTML and PDF at corestandards.org)
• Evaluation of "Redesigning the National Assessment of Educational Progress" (1998), by National Research Council Board on Testing and Assessment (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Understanding Your Aptitudes (updated successor to Trembly's "Learning to Use Your Aptitudes"; 2011), by Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation, contrib. by Dean Trembly (PDF with commentary at jocrf.org)
• Assessment of Men: Selection of Personnel for the Office of Strategic Services (New York: Rinehart and Co., c1948), by United States Office of Strategic Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Born That Way (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., 1928), by Johnson O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Functional Periodicity: An Experimental Study of the Mental and Motor Abilities of Women During Menstruation (1914), by Leta Stetter Hollingworth (HTML at York)

• A Study of Natio-Racial Mental Differences (Genetic Psychology Monographs v1 #3-4; 1926), by Nathaniel D. Mttron Hirsch (page images at Harvard)

• (Re)Articulating Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), by Brian A. Huot
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Bridging the Gap: The Transfer Class (Harvard-Newton bulletin #3; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University , 1915), by Frank Watson Wright
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), by Bob Broad (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Manual of Directions for Giving and Scoring the Dearborn Group Tests of Intelligence (2 volumes; Philadelphia et al.: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1920), contrib. by Walter F. Dearborn
  • Series I (general exams 1-3 for grades 1-3): page images at HathiTrust
  • Series II (general exams 4-5 for grades 4-9): multiple formats at archive.org
• Psychological Service for School Problems (Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Co., c1930), by Gertrude Howell Hildreth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Thoughts on Children (Rifton, NY et al.: Plough Publishing House, c2012), by Johann Christoph Blumhardt and Christoph Blumhardt (PDF at plough.com)

• Child Development (partial serial archives)
• The Psychological Clinic (full serial archives)
• The Pedagogical Seminary and Journal of Genetic Psychology (partial serial archives)
• The Pedagogical Seminary (partial serial archives)

• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Community Members Can Do (2014), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (HTML and PDF with commentary at NIH)
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Rescue Workers Can Do (2014), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (HTML and PDF with commentary at NIH)
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Parents Can Do (2013), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (multiple formats with commentary at NIH)

• Even in Chaos: Education in Times of Emergency (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Humanitarian Coooperation, 2010), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Children and Young People's Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction: Agency and Resilience (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, c2020), ed. by Maggie Mort, Israel Rodriguez-Giralt, and Ana Delicado (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Infant Behavior: Its Genesis and Growth (first edition; New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1934), by Arnold Gesell and Helen Thompson, contrib. by Catherine Strunk Amatruda (page images at HathiTrust)

• Love as the Foundation of Moral Education and Character Development, ed. by Luis Ugalde, Nicholas Barros, and George F. McLean (multiple formats at Google)

• American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965 (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2006), by Kirsten Lise Fermaglich (PDF at Brandeis)
• Foundations of Psychohistory, by Lloyd DeMause (illustrated HTML at psychohistory.com)
• The Emotional Life of Nations, by Lloyd DeMause (HTML at psychohistory.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.