Sze, Gillian
Summary: "When you ask me why your skin is brown, I will tell you that you are my favorite color. I will say that your skin was decided long, long ago. Time was just waiting for you. So begins a mother's celebration of her children's brown skin, told through warm and vivid poetry."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SZECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Social SzeCopper, Jenny
Summary: 'Little one, I love you so, more than you could ever know.' A heartfelt, rhyming story book that is perfect for reading at bedtime, with a glittery heart to shake, shimmer and sparkle. Shake the book to create a colourful cascade of glitter and foil shapes inside the heart, which is secured to the inside of the book so you can make the heart shake, shimmer and sparkle on each page. The gentle,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imagine That 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Beer, Sophie
Summary: Whether you have one parent, two moms, two dads, a mom and a dad, or another wonderful caregiver, there's one thing that makes a family a family ... and that's love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Meyok, Rosemarie
Summary: "In this adorable book to be shared with babies and toddlers, mothers explore their love for their babies as experienced through the five senses. From the sound of a baby's giggles to the smell of a kunik, this book celebrates the unique bonds shared between mothers and babies."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Inhabit Media Inc. 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MEYBaker, Chandler
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Chandler Baker's Cutting Teeth is a witty, thrilling story of parental love that asks: is there anything a mother won't do for her children? Darby, Mary Beth, and Rhea are on personal quests to reclaim aspects of their identities subsumed by motherhood-their careers, their sex lives, their bodies. Their children, though, disrupt their plans when an unsettling...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAKManushkin, Fran
Summary: Illustrations and gently rhyming text follow two mothers and their toddler on a sunny day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MANNarh, Samuel
Summary: As the seasons turn, Maisie rides her bull in and out of Dada's tall tales. Her Mama wears linen and plays the viola. Her Dada wears kente cloth and plays the marimba.They come from different places, but they hug her in the same way. And most of all, they love her just the same. A joyful celebration of a mixed-race family and the love that binds us all together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lantana Publishing 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NARAdamson, Deb
Summary: "Celebrate the special bond between mother and baby with this beautifully illustrated keepsake book. A thankful prayer to God for sending her baby is emotionally touching. Written by a grateful mother herself, Deb Adamson captures moments of the heart like finding out you're expecting, watching your baby sleeping, and hearing their first sweet laugh -- lyrically written in rhyming verse. A...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cottage Door Press, LLC 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. The two become fast friends, but the older woman's maternal charms begin to dissolve and grow increasingly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GREPerlman, Willa
Summary: "This board book bursts with heart as it describes the love a parent feels for their child from the moment of meeting--and beyond. From eyes, to lips, to fingers, to toes, all parents will know what it feels like to love every inch of your baby--and babies and toddlers will feel the love, too"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD PERSuri, Manil.
Summary: Marrying in order to escape an overbearing father, Meera is further victimized by her physically demanding husband and lustful brother-in-law, a circumstance from which she finds fleeting escape through her relationships with her sister-in-law and young son.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SURJio, Sarah
Summary: Two women are connected across time by the city of Paris, a mysterious stack of love letters, and shocking secrets, sweeping from World War II to the present.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JIOBrown, Margaret Wise
Summary: A little rabbit who wants to run away tells his mother how he will escape, but she is always right behind him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Brown 1972Harvey, Kristy Woodson.
Summary: A moving debut novel about two mothers-one biological and one adoptive-from a compelling new voice in Southern women's fiction. One baby girl. Two strong Southern women. And the most difficult decision they'll ever make. Frances "Khaki" Mason has it all: a thriving interior design career, a loving husband and son, homes in North Carolina and Manhattan-everything except the second child she has...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media Inc 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HARMunsch, Robert N.
Summary: A mother sings a lullaby of love to her son for many years, then he has a baby!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 1986
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUNCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUNCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MUNJio, Sarah
Summary: Two women are connected across time by the city of Paris, a mysterious stack of love letters, and shocking secrets, sweeping from World War II to the present--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JIOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JIOHarvey, Kristy Woodson.
Summary: " A moving debut novel about two mothers-one biological and one adoptive-from a compelling new voice in Southern women's fiction. One baby girl. Two strong Southern women. And the most difficult decision they'll ever make. Frances "Khaki" Mason has it all: a thriving interior design career, a loving husband and son, homes in North Carolina and Manhattan-everything except the second child she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Trade 2015
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOODHunter, Anne
Summary: "Baby mouse has learned to squeak. And now it's squeak, squeak, squeak all day long. Baby chats with new friends and old friends, big friends and little friends, and sometimes just chats with no one at all. Poor mama needs a break...but when baby wandersoff, mama knows what to do: follow the squeaks!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HUNTucker, Abigail
Summary: "Book Description "For anyone who is a mother, or who has a mother, [Mom Genes] is an eye-opening tour through the biology and psychology of a role that is at once utterly ordinary and wondrously strange." -Annie Murphy Paul, author of Origins From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lion in the Living Room comes a fascinating and provocative exploration of the biology of motherhood....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.874 TUCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.874 TUCMcLean, Danielle
Summary: A board book with heart-shaped flaps and a mirror surprise at the end, this is a perfect way for daddies to say "I love you!" to their little ones.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tiger Tales/Little Tiger Press Ltd. 2021
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Board Books, Call number: BRDLondon, Martha
Summary: Explore Earth's layers from the crust down to the inner core. Learn about tectonic plates, convection currents, Earth's magnetic field, and more. Additional features include a diagram labeling each of the layers, Fast Facts, a phonetic glossary, an index, an introduction to the author, and further sources for learning.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J551.1 LONHolt, Hannah
Summary: Rhyming text focuses on animal fathers, with human dads ending the story, showing how fathers of many kinds care for their children in their own unique ways. Includes facts about the animals featured.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2021