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.

Share a mother's lilting love song to her newborn as he turns into a toddler, in a pleasing mix of English and Spanish lyrical verse.

A little bear describes how much his mother means to him.

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

The night finally arrives when Billywise the owlet, guided by his mother, jumps from the nest and flies.

Presents a free-verse tribute to the love between a mother and her child.

Ollie tries to be safe and polite on his first walk to the corner store alone, even when scary creatures appear on the way.

Little Sal and Little Bear both lose their mothers while eating blueberries and almost end up with each other's mother.

Twelve years after Malorie and her children rowed up the river to safety, a blindfold is still the only thing that stands between sanity and madness. One glimpse of the creatures that stalk the world will drive a person to unspeakable violence. There remains no explanation. No solution. All Malorie can do is survive?and impart her fierce will to do so on her children. Don?t get lazy, she tells them. Don?t take off your blindfold. AND DON?T LOOK. But...

Llama Llama becomes overwhelmed as Christmas preparations progress, until his mother reminds him of the real gift the holiday brings.