Books, babies, and libraries : serving infants, toddlers, their parents & caregivers

Covers child development, beginning readers, children's collections, parenting materials, program planning, networking, and service evaluation Whether you're looking for innovative programming specialized literature resources, or suggestions on motivating young patrons to read, ALA Editions has something for you.

With these authoritative selections, you can:
-- Expand outreach to children with special needs and hard-to-reach public segments
-- Create multicultural collections and programming
-- Entertain children with top-notch programming material

Discusses the library's role in early learning and parent education, theoretical concepts of child development and learning, emergent literacy, recommended book and nonprint collections, and program implementation. Bibliographies, a discography, and appendixes facilitate program planning.

Features discussions on the library's role in early learning and in parent education, the theoretical concepts of child development and learning, emergent literacy, recommended book and nonprint collections, and the implementation of effective programs.