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.

Delightfully smart and heartbreakingly poignant, Allison Pearson’s smash debut novel has exploded onto bestseller lists as “The national anthem for working mothers.” Hedge-fund manager, wife, and mother of two, Kate Reddy manages to juggle nine currencies in five time zones and keep in step with the Teletubbies. But when she finds herself awake at 1:37 a.m. in a panic over the need to produce a homemade pie for her daughter’s...

Daisy the duckling becomes so engrossed in playing with dragonflies and lily pads that she temporarily loses her mother.

This is the story of a woman forging a new life for herself after her marriage has foundered, shutting up her beloved Devonshire house and making a home for her two young children in London, elated at completing the collection of poems she foresees will make her name. It is also the story of a woman struggling to maintain her mental equilibrium, to absorb the pain of her husband's betrayal and to resist her mother's engulfing love. It is the story...

Mama animals tell their little ones all the ways they are loved, forever and always.

A mouse and its mother experience the delights of nature on a windy spring day.

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

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

Illustrations and rhyming text portray a young bear searching for its mother and meeting many North American animals along the way.