mother-child relationship

Tina Evans, slowly adjusting to the death of her young son Danny a year earlier, is shocked to see a child who looks remarkably like Danny in a stranger's car, and when she begins receiving strange dreams and messages, Tina knows that she is either losing her mind--or her child is alive.

Makis, having quickly adjusted to life in London where he and his mother Sophia have moved after his father's death in an earthquake in Greece, finds himself torn between his commitment to the football team and his desire to help Sophia, whose grief and inability to speak English has thrown her into depression.

SpongeBob writes an essay about his mom for a contest.

A mother reassures her son when he imagines increasingly silly things that might go wrong on his first day of kindergarten.

Three children describe how they feel when one of their parents is away.

When Bunny gets lost and can't find his mother, he fears that Mummy and his friends may not be able to find him to take him home.

Fourteen-year-old Darcy Murphy has been helping to raise his younger sister, Kat, since their mother was convicted of attempted murder; but now Sherri Murphy is being released and it will take incredible strength for Darcy to face her and the community that has labeled both of them.

After spending too much time playing with his favorite toy, Billy and his mother are very late for nursery school and his mother forgets some crucial things as she rushes to work.

Illustrations and rhyming text present some of the things that children hold dear.

A child at home and a mother flying back from a business trip think of each other as they eagerly await their reunion.