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

When I change I change fast. The moon drags the whatever-it-is up from the earth and it goes through me with crazy wriggling impatience . . . I’m twisted, torn, churned, throttled—then rushed through a blind chicane into ludicrous power . . . A heel settles. A last canine hurries through. A shoulder blade pops. The woman is a werewolf.
 
The woman is Talulla Demetriou.
She’s grieving for her werewolf lover,...

It's Jack's birthday and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside.

From her knowledge of when to change a diaper and how to make popsicles to her skills in driving a delivery truck and dancing the polka, a child sings the praises of a special family member.

A little rabbit enjoys having a day off from kindergarten and spending time with his mother during a snowstorm, but his father's flight home is cancelled until the snow stops falling.

Monty the baby elephant becomes separated from his herd when he stopped to examine some flowers and he meets groups of other animals as he tries to find his way back to his mother before nightfall.

A beloved and very sleepy little boy resists his mother's efforts to put him to bed.

Night Owl loves the nighttime, but when he doesn't see his mother, he listens for her and hears all the different sounds of the night.

As Christmas draws near, a young child is filled with questions about all of the things that could possibly go wrong, but Mama always finds a solution.

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