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Open accessResearch articleFirst published March, 2025

Running Around in the Story: Un/Raveling Compositions of Narrative Play

Ronna Mosher, Kimberly Lenters, Jennifer MacDonald

Journal of Literacy Research

Open accessResearch articleFirst published 2026

Threat and protectiveness as affective intensities: Anthropomorphism and co-dependency in narrative play

Karen Daniels

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

Open accessResearch articleFirst published September, 2024

‘If it's held dear,it’ll get pushed through’: Transmedia narratives,play cultures,and soft canon in tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs)

Kellynn Wee

International Journal of Cultural Studies

Open accessResearch articleFirst published December, 2025

Understanding the Processes of Role Adoption in Pedagogical Role-Play Games (RPGs): A Narrative Dramaturgical Perspective on “Social RPGs” in Health Professions Education

Sarah A. E. Aboushawareb, Gillian Bartlett, Amalia M. Issa [...]

Simulation & Gaming

Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published March, 1998

‘The Yeti's on the other Side’: The Narrative Nature of Children's Play

Kerry Mallan

Australasian Journal of Early Childhood

Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published October, 2005

Preschoolers' Imaginative Play as Precursor of Narrative Consciousness

Jerome L. Singer, Dorothy G. Singer

Imagination,Cognition and Personality

Open accessResearch articleFirst published June, 2025

Playing the story: Learning with young children’s in/visible composing collaborations in outdoor narrative play

Kimberly Lenters, Ronna Mosher, Jennifer MacDonald

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published June, 1993

The structure of four- and five-year-olds' narratives in pretend play and storytelling

Margaret S. Benson

First Language

Free accessResearch articleFirst published March, 2003

At Play on the Borders of the Diegetic: Story Boundaries and Narrative Interpretation

Margaret Mackey

Journal of Literacy Research

Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published September, 2017

Interlocutor–child Interactions: Supporting Children's Creativity in Graphic-narrative-embodied Play

Wan Yi Lee, Susan Wright

Australasian Journal of Early Childhood

Open accessResearch articleFirst published March, 2025

Running Around in the Story: Un/Raveling Compositions of Narrative Play

Ronna Mosher, Kimberly Lenters, Jennifer MacDonald

Journal of Literacy Research

Open accessResearch articleFirst published 2026

Threat and protectiveness as affective intensities: Anthropomorphism and co-dependency in narrative play

Karen Daniels

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

Open accessResearch articleFirst published September, 2024

‘If it's held dear,it’ll get pushed through’: Transmedia narratives,play cultures,and soft canon in tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs)

Kellynn Wee

International Journal of Cultural Studies

Open accessResearch articleFirst published December, 2025

Understanding the Processes of Role Adoption in Pedagogical Role-Play Games (RPGs): A Narrative Dramaturgical Perspective on “Social RPGs” in Health Professions Education

Sarah A. E. Aboushawareb, Gillian Bartlett, Amalia M. Issa [...]

Simulation & Gaming

Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published March, 1998

‘The Yeti's on the other Side’: The Narrative Nature of Children's Play

Kerry Mallan

Australasian Journal of Early Childhood

Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published October, 2005

Preschoolers' Imaginative Play as Precursor of Narrative Consciousness

Jerome L. Singer, Dorothy G. Singer

Imagination,Cognition and Personality

Open accessResearch articleFirst published June, 2025

Playing the story: Learning with young children’s in/visible composing collaborations in outdoor narrative play

Kimberly Lenters, Ronna Mosher, Jennifer MacDonald

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published June, 1993

The structure of four- and five-year-olds' narratives in pretend play and storytelling

Margaret S. Benson

First Language

Free accessResearch articleFirst published March, 2003

At Play on the Borders of the Diegetic: Story Boundaries and Narrative Interpretation

Margaret Mackey

Journal of Literacy Research

Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published September, 2017

Interlocutor–child Interactions: Supporting Children's Creativity in Graphic-narrative-embodied Play

Wan Yi Lee, Susan Wright

Australasian Journal of Early Childhood