A little rabbit who wants to run away tells his mother how he will escape, but she is always right behind him.

A young llama wants to play but must go shopping with his mother instead, and so he gets angry and makes a mess at the store.

A little bird asks animals, planes, and boats, "Are you my mother?" until he finds his own mother.

A mother and child discuss how the mother's love would remain constant even if her child were a stinky skunk, scary ape, or bug-eating green alien.

"Following up her instant New York Times bestseller, A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham delivers a totally gripping thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past in All the Dangerous Things. One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. With little evidence and few leads for the police to chase,...

From her knowledge of when to change a diaper and how to make popsicles to her skills in driving a delivery truck and dancing the polka, a child sings the praises of a special family member.

On the telephone with her son, a mother recounts the many different ways she will travel to rejoin him, including by hot air balloon, camel, cheetah, and shark.

Two children describe the wonderful times they have with their mother doing such things as playing in the park, telling stories, and going to the zoo.

"Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come...

A beloved and very sleepy little boy resists his mother's efforts to put him to bed.