Edutopia – Stephen Merrill
“In the 1990s, a small team of researchers compiled an unusual list: an elaborate taxonomy of the imaginary friends of hundreds of three and four-year-olds, with accompanying descriptions. Among the fantastical beings—filed into Linnaean categories like ‘Magical Child’ and ‘Ghost, Angel Presence’—were invisible, plaid-colored fleas hunted by space aliens, a chatty green cyclops with a penchant for world travel, and a mercurial creature named Baintor, who lived undetected in lamplight. That’s all perfectly strange, and perfectly natural.” (more)