{"product_id":"invisible-companions-j-bradley-wigger-9781503609112","title":"Invisible Companions: Encounters with Imaginary Friends, Gods, Ancestors, and Angels","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the US to Nepal, author J. Bradley Wigger travels five countries on three continents to hear children describe their invisible friends--one-hundred-year-old robins and blue dogs, dinosaurs and teapots, pretend families and shape-shifting aliens--companions springing from the deep well of childhood imagination. Drawing on these interviews, as well as a new wave of developmental research, he finds a fluid and flexible quality to the imaginative mind that is central to learning, co-operation, and paradoxically, to real-world rationality. Yet Wigger steps beyond psychological territory to explore the religious significance of the kind of mind that develops relationships with invisible beings. Alongside Cinderella the blue dog, Quack-Quack the duck, and Dino the dinosaur are angels, ancestors, spirits, and gods. What he uncovers is a profound capacity in the religious imagination to see through the surface of reality to more than meets the eye. Punctuated throughout by children's colorful drawings of their see-through interlocutors, the book is highly engaging and alternately endearing, moving, and humorous. Not just for parents or for those who work with children, \u003ci\u003eInvisible Companions\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to anyone interested in our mind's creative and spiritual possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Bradley Wigger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503609111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503609112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/23\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.00w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2020","brand":"J. Bradley Wigger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43979776229631,"sku":"9781503609112","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0873ee73-5669-4cea-98b3-c9fef5c3f419.jpg?v=1683246867","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/invisible-companions-j-bradley-wigger-9781503609112","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}