Part One: Introduction. Transcending Time, Place, and Circumstance: An Introduction to This Volume / Marjorie Taylor ; Historical Overview of Research on Imagination in Children / Jerome L. Singer and Dorothy G. Singer.
Part Two: Fantasy-Reality Distinctions. Fairy Tales, History, and Religion / Paul L. Harris ; Magical Thinking / Karl S. Rosengren and Jason French ; Beliefs in Magical Beings and Cultural Myths / Jacqueline D. Woolley and Chelsea A. Cornelius ; Distinguishing Imagination From Reality / Deena Skolnick Weisberg ; Children's Source Monitoring of Memories for Imagination / Mary Ann Foley ; Suggestibility and Imagination in Early Childhood / Nathalie Carrick, Elizabeth Rush, and Jodi A. Quas ; Child witnesses and imagination: Lying, Hypothetical Reasoning, and Referential Ambiguity / Thomas D. Lyon ; Fictional Worlds, the Neuroscience of the Imagination, and Childhood Education / Angeline S. Lillard.
Part Three: Pretend Play and Narrative. Executive Function, Pretend Play, and Imagination / Stephanie M. Carlson and Rachel E. White ; The Distinction between Role Play and Object Substitution in Pretend Play / Alison B. Shawber-Sachet and Candice M. Mottweiler ; How Do Children Represent Pretense? / Ori Friedman ; Culture, Narrative, and Imagination / Elaine Reese ; Flux and Flow in Children's Narratives / Susan Engel ; Pretend Play as Culturally Constructed Activity / Suzanne Gaskins.
Part Four: Imagining the Self and Other. Imaginary Relationships / Tracy R. Gleason ; Imagining Other Minds: Anthropomorphism is Hair Triggered but not Hare Brained / Adam Waytz, Nadav Klein, and Nicholas Epley ; Imagination and the Self / Chris Moore and John Barresi.
Part Five: Mental Time Travel, Counterfactual Thinking, and Causality. Future Thinking in Young Children / Cristina M. Atance and Jennifer L. Metcalf ; Counterfactuals and Reality / Sarah R. Beck and Kevin J. Riggs ; Causality and Imagination / Caren M. Walker and Alison Gopnik ; What Children Understand about the Flow of Mental Life / Anne O. Eisbach.
Part Six: Creativity. Imagination and Personal Creativity / Mark A. Runco and Jeremy Pina ; Individual Differences in the Development of Social Creativity / Christophe Mouchiroud and Franck Zenasni ; The Relationship between Pretend Play and Creativity / Eva V. Hoff ; The Creation of Imaginary Worlds / Michele M. Root-Bernstein ; The Influence of Television, Video Games, and the Internet on Children's Creativity / Sandra L. Calvert and Patti M. Valkenburg.
Part Seven: Comparative Issues. On the Evolution of Imagination and Design / Thomas Suddendorf and Andy Dong ; The Comparative Study of Imagination / Robert W. Mitchell.
Part Eight: Clinical Issues. Imagination and Dissociation Across the Lifespan / Kathryn A. Becker-Blease ; The Development of Imagination in Children with Autism / Fiona J. Scott ; The Role of Pretend Play in Child Psychotherapy / Sandra W. Russ and Karla K. Fehr ; Imagination-based Interventions with Children / Jana Porat and Avi Sadeh ; Telling stories: Accessing Narrative Imagination for use in Assessment with Clinical and Typical Populations / Miriam Steele ; Imagination and Coping with Chronic Illness / Cindy Dell Clark.
Part Nine: Conclusion. Looking ahead: Some Thoughts about Future Directions / Marjorie Taylor.