mothers and daughters

A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.

Cassandra's mother, who wishes she could go to second grade again, visits her daughter's class disguised as a plant.

A mother passes on the tradition of making quilts, or "Show ways", that serve as secret maps for freedom seeking slaves.

Though they spend the day doing things together, Anna and her mother see the same things in very different ways.

Alice tells her mother about her special room, where she can play with her cat who died, enjoy the warm beach in January, go sledding on a hot summer day, and do anything she has already done in the past.

While living with her grandparents when her mother goes to work in the city, a young Panamanian girl memorizes her mother's favorite poem, "Caperucita Roja," for her school's Christmas pageant.

Lupe, a young Mexican American, must translate for her mother who speaks only Spanish until Mrs. Gomez decides to learn English in order to get a better job.

Katy is not looking forward to the changes that her mother's marriage will bring.

Annika, a twelve-year-old foundling in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, and soon afterwards a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.

A mother describes her love for a toy elephant she was given as a child, a gift she has now passed on to her daughter.