parent and child

When fourteen-year-old Holly Starcross meets her father for the first time in eight years, the experience changes the way she thinks about him, her mother, and even herself.

Owen, a young mouse, learns to separate from his security blanket.

His parents do not believe him when Norman tells them that the mess in his room was created by animal visitors in the night--even though he never tells a lie.

A child's parents are very naughty in the park, getting dirty, splashing in puddles, and dribbling ice cream.

When Ritchie's younger sister Rosie gets very sick after their mother suddenly goes away, Rosie begins to receive letters from a lonely troll, and these letters help Ritchie cope with his mother's absence, his father's seeming indifference, and the fifth-grade class bully.

Bernard's parents pay so little attention to him that they don't even realize when a monster moves in and takes his place.

Piper Paw can not bear being kissed by his mother all the time, and it takes some painful experiences for them to reach a mutual understanding.