mothers and daughters

When fourteen-year-old Kelly is sent off to Florida to stay with her rigid grandparents after her mother's nervous breakdown, she learns the meaning of love and support.

In pictures and rhythmic text, a mother relates to her daughter all the steps involved in making her a snug, wooly sweater, starting at the very beginning with feeding the sheep.

A girl describes how each person in the family has hair that looks and acts different, Papa's like a broom, Kiki's like fur, and Mama's with the sweet smell of bread before it's baked.

A young girl and her mother walk along the beach and marvel at the treasures cast up by the sea and the wonders of the world around them.

Fifteen-year-old Amanda's refined life in early twentieth-century San Francisco is disrupted when she grudgingly accompanies her mother to the Oklahoma Territory on a crusade to save the buffalo.

Mary wants to play dolls with her friends, so she and her mother make a beautiful doll for Mary, and Mary tries to find the perfect nose so her doll can breathe and sneeze. Presented in Arabic.

A young girl talks about how her mother does everything perfectly for her, from waking her up in a whimsical way to cooking her favorite foods, playing, and showing her love.

When eleven-year-old Sam visits her grandfather's ranch for the first time, she finds a new life very different from the one she has known with her vagabond mother and discovers what really matters most to her.

Seventeen-year-old Alexandria, a child of a mortal and a demigod, has lived among mortals for three years, pretending to be like them, but a horrifying attack forces her to flee Miami and try to make her way to the Covenant and safety from the daimons that want her dead.

Marta Schneider, hoping to prove her father wrong in his prediction that she will never be more than a servant, leaves her home in Switzerland to pursue her dream of owning an inn, but she must make many sacrifices when she marries Niclas Waltert in Canada and begins her own family, and in her efforts to make her children strong, finds herself behaving more like her abusive father than her loving mother, especially with her daughter, Hildemara Rose.