Babies in the Library!
Marino presents clear and convincing arguments for holding library programs specifically geared toward babies. Organizing and presenting her ideas in a thoughtful and philosophical manner, she addresses many relevant topics: making babies feel comfortable in the library, creating programs for prewalkers and walkers, handling registration, and offering suggestions for planning and executing programs. She also includes various activities that introduce books, rhymes, puppets, and other tools that enhance language skills. This book resembles the author's Mother Goose Time: Library Programs for Babies and Their Caregivers (H.W. Wilson, 1992) in format but focuses more on the stages of baby development. In both the earlier text and this one, Marino includes a wealth of fingerplays, which are grouped by everyday experiences such as tub and changing rhymes, food rhymes, and lullabies. In the earlier text, Marino's lists of recommended books were broken into categories suchas display books, picture-book titles for Mother Goose time, and resource books. Here, the author includes a more in-depth and categorized list of books, recordings, videos, and other sources useful to librarians and parents. Librarians will welcome this resource from a veteran of children's librarianship, and a valued expert in the field.Leslie Barban, Richland County Public Library, Columbia, SCCopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.