mother and child

"When Ma Peachey resigned from being a mother to take up yoga instead, the rest of the family took up being in crisis: no one cooked dinner, no one picked up the dirty laundry, and the children were always late for school. Ma might be off finding inner peace, but Pa Peachey, Ava, and Ollie are falling apart! Only almost-nine-year-old Betty is wise enough to know that the family needs to be rescued. Enter McTavish--a rescue dog on a mission to rescue his brand-new family. A very good plan is needed to get the Peacheys back on track. But if anyone can do it, McTavish can. After all--McTavish is a very good dog"--Jacket flap.

Llama Llama gets ready for Valentine's Day with his mother.

At bedtime, a little llama worries after his mother puts him to bed and goes downstairs.

Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.

Follows, in rhyming text and illustrations, the activities of a variety of animal mothers as they care for their babies.

When Sarah discovers that her mother, who walked out on Sarah and her father seven years ago, is living nearby, but does not want to see Sarah, she is angry and is determined to make her mother pay for all the misery her abandonment caused Sarah.

When Little Raccoon asks his mother when she loves him the most, she finally answers "always right now.".

Discusses the need to keep mothers healthy before and after their pregnancies, following the stories of children who have been affected by the issue, and looking at what is being done to ensure the health of mothers and children.

An actress with a drug problem tries to keep her movie career alive with both help and hindrance from her movie star mother and a stay in a rehabilitation hospital.

Mama Penguin has hidden all the alphabet letters in the snow, with each letter marked by a clue, and her six little penguins must find them all and bring them home--to a big bowl of alphabet soup.