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Children the journal of the Association for Library Service to Children Libraries & Volume 16 Number 1 Spring 2018 ISSN 1542-9806 LEARNING THROUGH PLAY Fostering Writing at the Library Drag Queen Storytimes! Table Contents● ofVolume 16, Number 1 Spring 2018 Notes Departments 2 Editor’s Note 38 Every Child Ready to Read Sharon Verbeten Taking Early Literacy Messages to WIC Centers Features Marisa Conner 3 Mother Goose in the NICU 40 The Last Word Support for the Neediest Infants and Their Families Another Fish Story. Betsy Diamant-Cohen, Susan Sonnenschein, Dawn Sacks, Summer Amy Peterson Rosswog, and Brenda Hussey-Gardner 39 Index to Advertisers 8 Writing Boxes The Reading/Writing Connection Supporting Literacy in the Library Lisa Von Drasek 14 The Better to See You With Peering into the Story of Little Red Riding Hood, 1695–1939 Angela J. Reynolds 21 Far from a Drag How One Library Embraced Drag Queen Story Hour Chelsea Condren 23 Storytime in a Box The Cooperative Approach to Preschool Storytime Planning Katie Bowers, Vivian Howard, and Alison Brown 30 Couples Who Collaborate Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmann ON THE COVER: Playing to learn at the toy library inside the Lincoln Branch Library in Rochester, New York. Jennifer Gibson 33 A Revolutionary Idea Planning an Epic Hamil-Con Katie Guzek 34 Ready to Read at New York Libraries Comprehensive Professional Development in Early Literacy Services and Outreach Karen Balsen and Amanda R. Latreille Editor’s Note By Sharon Verbeten OK, we’re a couple months into 2018; how are your resolutions going? Now granted, as I write this, we’re only a few weeks into the New Year, so mine are going great… Editor Sharon Verbeten, De Pere, Wisconsin but as we know, things tend to drift as the year goes on. Editorial Advisory Committee Randall Enos, Chair, Middletown, New York While my resolutions had nothing to do with my job as a Anna Haase Krueger, St. Paul, Minnesota Jeremiah Henderson, Renton, Washington librarian, I’m sure many of us think of things each year that Lettycia Terrones, Urbana, Illinois we can do better for our patrons—especially our young Lisa Von Drasek, St. Paul, Minnesota Virginia A. Walter, Los Angeles, California charges. I’m planning on introducing some sensory story- Nina Lindsay, ALSC President, Ex Officio, Oakland, California Sharon Verbeten, Editor, Ex Officio, De Pere, Wisconsin times for my suburban branch, targeting those with autism and other sensory needs. Thankfully, we’ve covered that Executive Director topic several times in Children and Libraries, so I have a lot of Aimee Strittmatter solid research and best practices to consult. Managing Editor Laura Schulte-Cooper I also hope to stress more to our parents and caregivers the Website www.ala.org/alsc importance of “play.” Too often, I hear a parent tell a child, Circulation “We’re not here to play; we’re here to look at books.” I want Children and Libraries (ISSN 1542-9806) is a refereed journal published four times per year by the them to know that play, also, is an important component of American Library Association (ALA), 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. It is the official publica- tion of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of ALA. Subscription learning. price: members of ALSC, $20 per year, included in membership dues; nonmembers, $50 per year in the U.S.; $60 in Canada, Mexico, and other countries. Back issues within one year of current issue, $15 each. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Children and Libraries, 50 E. Huron St., And I hope to convince at least one parent or grandparent Chicago, IL 60611. 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It also serves as a vehicle for communication to the ALSC membership, spot- lighting significant activities and initiatives of the Association. (From the journal’s “Policies and What are your goals/resolutions for your library this year? Procedures” document adopted by the ALSC board, April 2004, revised, 2014.) And how can you use your skills and resources to make them Production happen? I wish you a great start to 2018—hope see you all in ALA Production Services: Chris Keech, Tim Clifford, and Lauren Ehle. Nawlins this summer! & Advertising Bill Spilman, Innovative Media Solutions, 320 W. Chestnut St., PO Box 399, Oneida, IL 61467; 1-877-878-3260 or (309) 483-6467; fax: (309) 483-2371; e-mail: bill@innovativemediasolutions .com. The journal accepts advertising for goods or services of interest to the library profession and librarians in service to youth in particular. 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For other photocopying, reprint- ing, or translating, address requests to the ALA Office of Rights and Permissions. 2 Spring 2018 • Children and Libraries Mother Goose in the NICU Support for the Neediest Infants and Their Families BETSY DIAMANT-COHEN, SUSAN SONNENSCHEIN, DAWN SACKS, SUMMER ROSSWOG, AND BRENDA HUSSEY-GARDNER f the 76,510 babies born during an average week in the Parents and their “babies” learn how to share books through the United States, 7,361—or about 10 percent—are born Mother Goose on the Loose program, now utilized in some NICUs. O prematurely.1 Preterm babies, born before the thirty- seventh week of gestation, can be born with underdeveloped allowing easy access to the babies by a wide array of medical organ systems and other health problems that impact their staff. As the medical field and research on preterm infants ability to survive on their own outside of the womb. have evolved, so have NICUs. One significant change has been the trend toward becoming more family friendly. Cuddling Preterm birth and low birth weight are leading causes of and skin-to-skin contact are now recognized as beneficial infant death, childhood disability, and developmental for all but the frailest infants. And most recently, NICUs are delays.2 Among the smallest survivors (those born at less being reconfigured from the ward setting to individual family than twenty-six weeks gestation), 57 percent have a mild or rooms. Families are encouraged to stay together, and it has moderate disability, and 23 percent have a severe disability.3 become much easier for parents to spend as much time as To support preterm and other medically fragile infants, many possible with their babies. hospitals have neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) special- izing in the care of these at-risk infants.