In 2002, the Enoch Pratt Free Library won the prestigious
fourth annual Godfrey Award for Excellence in Public Library Services
for Families and Children for Mother Goose on the Loose.
The award recognized “Mother Goose on the
Loose” as a strong contributor to a comprehensive set of
library goals relating to children's services because of it's developmentally
appropriate activities, as well as the incorporation of nursery
rhymes with music, games and puppets to encourage literacy in young
children. By offering Mother Goose on the Loose programs, the Enoch
Pratt Free Library met its goals in supporting early literacy and
increasing public library usage by families with young children.
In 2003, Baltimore Magazine chose the
Enoch Pratt Free Library as the best family library for many reasons,
including continuous Mother Goose on the Loose programs.
In 2004, Betsy Diamant-Cohen was chosen by Library
Journal as one of 50 "Movers and Shakers" in the
library world, largely because of her work with Mother Goose on
the Loose.
