I need to read this book RIGHT NOW!

The Development of Imagination: The Private Worlds of Childhood by David Cohen and Stephen A. MacKeith is about paracosms. I NEED IT RIGHT NOW.

And this one too, which has an essay about paracosms: Organizing Early Experience: Imagination and Cognition in Childhood edited by Delmont Morrison.

LHF 4.4: "Getting Out"

http://oddpla.net/lhf/?p=273

In which Anneka can’t stand it any more and Will falls to his knees. 

Comments: Anneka is pondering with the help of her Jareth doll, a representation of her favorite movie character. Apparently this movie always gets her thinking about dominance and submission.

Will has quite the appetite. Besides orange juice, he also has a plate full of a pig in the blanket, a gyro, a slice of pizza, a bowl of pasta salad and a banana split.