Theme Play

Gary Zingher has engaged children in thematic journeys in a number of settings. He has been the library media specialist at Corlears School, Manhattan Country School, and Bank Street College Children's School, the imagination consultant at the Children's Workshop School, play therapist at St. Luke's Hospital, and the creative arts director at Camp Vacamas in West Milford, N. J. He co-developed and co-taught the New Perspectives course, Creative Library Programs for Children at the Bank Street College Of Education, and has led imagination workshops at Columbia Teacher's College, Pacific Oaks College, St. John's University, and the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He is the author of At the Pirate Academy: Adventures with Language in the Library Media Center (1990). His column, Thematic Journeys appears in School Library Media Activities Monthly. He also writes for Crinkles and Novelist.