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Maureen Crago collaborated with Hugh Crago on their longitudinal studyPrelude to Literacy: A Preschool Child's Encounter with Picture and Story. Since then, she has been in private practice as a psychotherapist. She is currently reexamining the rich store of observation on whichPrelude was based for a series of articles that widen and deepen the focus of the original study.
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Crago, M. Creating and comprehending the fantastic: A case study of a child from twenty to thirty-five months. Child Lit Educ 24, 209–222 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01134175
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