Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young child's day.

Describes the relationship of a mother and child as the child grows into a man and has a child of his own.

Shares messages about how a parent's presence and devotion can be recognized in the natural world, from a soft breeze to a shimmering star.

A picture book written for a newborn child as an introduction to what life on Earth is like, covering topics like land and ocean, daytime and nighttime, and what it means to be a person.

Although he finally agrees that he has too many toys and needs to give them away, there is one toy that Spencer absolutely cannot part with.

A young girl must face her least favorite food when a mean gang of green beans kidnaps her parents.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal a parent's musings about what a child will become, knowing that the child's kindness, cleverness, and boldness will shine through no matter what, as will the love they share.

After meeting a dog during a walk, a little girl declares that she wants one hundred dogs, but as her parents point out all the difficulties, she gradually reduces the number--until she gets the one dog she really wants.

When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.

Robbie and his dog, Ellie, spend the summer at his grandmother Maddy's house, where Robbie learns many things about his emotionally distant parents and himself.