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.

Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.

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.

'Babysaurus is looking for his Mamasaurus. Can his prehistoric friends help him find her?"--Back cover.

Three baby owls awake one night to find their mother gone, and wonder where she is. They greet her return with joyous celebration.

Describes, in rhyming text and illustrations, a mother's love for her little fox child --no matter how he feels or what he does.

Alice wants everything in her bedroom to be blue before she falls asleep.

Illustrations and prose inspired by the Quran celebrate a mother's love and hopes for her child.

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 blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....