Mother Goose on the Loose: Here, There, and Everywhere - Softcover

Not only is Mother Goose on the Loose (MGOL) a fun-filled approach that nurtures early literacy and school readiness skills in young children, it's also extremely flexible. Demonstrating how librarians, educators, and caregivers have adapted MGOL for a variety of settings, this book encourages others to do the same. Among the contexts presented are special settings such as museums, parks, malls, Early Head Start, as a summer reading club, homes and home daycares, in schools, and in prisons; children with special needs, children in hospitals, parents of premature infants, teen moms, and other special audiences; and multicultural MGOL, including programs in Spanish, in Spanish and English, and in a Jewish environment and other religious settings. This resource will enable presenters to offer these fun-filled programs to children and caregivers wherever early literacy is needed-which is everywhere!

Dr. Betsy Diamant-Cohen has been a children's librarian for more than 25 years, and has worked in public libraries, school libraries, academic libraries, non-profit libraries, children's museums, preschools, home-daycares and more. She has three children (who are now all adults!), a wonderful husband, and lots of stuffed animals. Her wealth of personal experience combined with a thirst for knowledge and a passion for giving all children equal chances to be successful has led to the development of the Mother Goose on the Loose early literacy program, the publication of several books, and the production of a few CDs. Diamant-Cohen was named a ""Mover and Shaker"" by Library Journal in 2004 and completed her doctorate in 2006.