Review of The Kingdom of The Child

Abstract

Reviews the book, The Kingdom of The Child by Alice Minnie Herts Heniger (1918). In her latest volume, Mrs. Heniger presents the psychological conclusions which her fifteen years' work with the Children's Educational Theatre have enabled her to draw, and shows how they may be used as fundamental principles of modern pedagogy. The child's kingdom is the world of imagination, of make-believe, is her main thesis, and we must use this innate creative instinct in order to breathe the glow of life into our deadly school curriculum, and also to mold the character and shape the personality of the children entrusted to our guidance. In his introduction to the present volume, G. Stanley Hall characterizes it as "a real and original contribution to both educational methods and our knowledge of childhood." He might well have added that it is a book which should be in the hands and minds of every mother and teacher, for it contains information which is vital for the proper development of the child's social and moral nature. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)