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.

Being a mother is a hard, tiresome role that, although not regularly discussed, can often bring up feelings of sadness, anxiety, anger, disgust, and embarrassment, or as clinical psychologist and mother Claire Nicogassian Psy. D. calls them, shadow emotions. This compilation of clinical advice and practical strategies guides struggling mothers through understanding these shadow emotions, working on overcoming them and ultimately moving to a place...

Left by their mother with their grandparents, two children feel as if their past has been erased until Grandfather finds a way to restore it to them.

While out for a walk, Mama Elephant answers her child's questions about a monkey, a frog, a songbird, a butterfly, and a crocodile, all the while teaching about Little Elephant too.

A young child describes her experiences of life in Mali as she spends a day carried in a blanket on her mother's back.

Various baby animals ask their mothers to carry them.

Lyrical text and illustrations of baby animals and their mothers show the love of a parent.

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

Three mothers and their offspring--fox, rabbit, and human--wait for the first snow of winter.

A mother and toddler have fun at suppertime.