mother-child relationship

The story of three owl babies who try to stay calm while their mother is out in the night.

"A little owl is scared of flying, because every time he opens his wings, he tumbles to the ground. Mommy explains to him that it will take a few failures before he succeeds, and soon, the little owl feels brave enough to keep trying. An uplifting celebration of courage and learning how to handle life's challenges."--Provided by publisher.

Contains colorful illustrations of mothers and their babies, including deer, ducks, bears, and humans.

"Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara's family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her younger daughter, Jasmin, hides in a basement to avoid being pressed into service at the comfort stations. Her older daughter, Jujube, who serves tea to drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Cecily knows two things: that this is all her fault, and that her family must never learn the truth. A decade prior, Cecily, desperate to be more than a housewife in British-colonized Malaya, is lured into a life of espionage by the charismatic General Fuijwara. Mesmerized by a dream of an 'Asia for Asians,' she helps usher in a war, and with it, a new and more brutal occupier. Now, her family is on the brink of destruction--and she will do anything to save them"--Provided by publisher.

When a close relative falls ill, Hannah Larson and her young son, Nicky, join him for the summer at Ashton Hall, a historic manor house outside Cambridge, England. A frustrated academic whose ambitions have been subsumed by the challenges of raising her beloved child, Hannah longs to escape her life in New York City, where her marriage has been upended by a recently discovered and devastating betrayal. Soon after their arrival, ever-curious Nicky finds the skeletal remains of a woman walled into a forgotten part of the manor, and Hannah is pulled into an all-consuming quest for answers, Nicky close by her side.

A little kangaroo learns that wherever she is, her mother's love is always with her.

*The vibration in her feet when she runs, the tap-tap-tap of her fork on the table at mealtime--these are the things that calm her jitters down. Follow a young girls with heightened sensory experiences through her day with fun, interactive sounds and motions"--Provided by publisher.

Young children will learn what life can look like for an autistic child who uses nonverbal communication by following a mother and child on a day where they use a tablet to communicate with others.

Illustrations and rhyming text portray a young bear searching for its mother and meeting many North American animals along the way.

A mother wishes that her daughter will sing, play, love, stand up for herself, and know that she has all she needs to make her own wishes come true.