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The Case for Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World Life Stages Woodpeckers (Picidae) 54 Downy andIn The Case for Make Believe, Harvard child psychologist Susan Linn tells the alarming story of childhood under siege in a commercialized and technology saturated world. Although play is essential to human development and children are born with an innate capacity for make believe, Linn argues that, in modern day America, nurturing creative play is not only countercultural it threatens corporate profits. A book with immediate relevance for parents and