mother-child relationship

Heading outside to play with Momma on a warm and windy day, Mouse observes a feathery bird, a wiggly worm and a hopping frog before discovering a beautiful flower and realizing that the spring season has arrived.

Emily Colson shares the story of her experiences as the single mother of a child diagnosed with autism, and tells how she developed her own visual communication system for working with Max.

"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.

Children demonstrate that while their mothers differ from traditional superheroes, as American soldiers they are a superheroes of a different kind.

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.

A toddler's antics keep his mother busy as she tries to feed him, watch him on the playground, give him a bath, and put him to bed.

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

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

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.

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