Mothers

Bossypants by Tina Fey

Bossypants

When I first saw Tina Fey co-anchor Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update with Jimmy Fallon on some lonely teenage evening, I couldn't stand her. The punchlines were marinated in a sense of overwhelming superiority, with a side of mean-spirited smarminess. Thankfully this is not the version of Tina Fey that came into focus as time passed.

Every Last One

By Anna Quindlen

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Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence. (Catalog summary)
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Flower Garden

By Eve Bunting

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Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother. Suggested for ages 3-7.
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Don't Forget I Love You

By Miriam Moss

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After spending too much time playing with his favorite toy, Billy and his mother are very late for nursery school and his mother forgets some crucial things as she rushes to work.

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I Love You, Little One

By Nancy Tafuri

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

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Lots of Moms

By Shelley Rotner and Sheila M. Kelly

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Photographs and brief text depict a variety of mothers engaged in different activities, with emphasis on the similarities of mothers everywhere.

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Mama Loves

By Molly Goode

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Follows, in rhyming text and illustrations, the activities of a variety of animal mothers as they care for their babies.

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Mommy's Hands

By Kathryn Lasky and Jane Kamine

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Young children describe the various things their hands and their mothers' hands do when they are together throughout the different seasons of the year.

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My Life Among the Aliens

By Gail Gauthier

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Two brothers begin to wonder if it is their mother's unusual cooking that is attracting the aliens that keep showing up at their house.

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My Mom

By Anthony Browne

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A child describes the many wonderful things about "my mom," who can make anything grow, roar like a lion, and be as comfy as an armchair.

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