Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.

At bedtime, a little llama worries after his mother puts him to bed and goes downstairs.

Little critter and his mother take a trip to the city exploring the department stores and museums.

Three baby owls awake one night to find their mother gone, and wonder where she is. They greet her return with joyous celebration.

Baby Hippo is in such a rush to play one morning he forgets to kiss his mama, but strangely all the jungle noises seem to remind him.

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

A little creature tries and tries to do something special for his mother but something always seems to go wrong.

"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 medical condition begins to go around the Little Academy...

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

A baby raccoon spends the day with its mother enjoying many different experiences, from dressing up the cat to splashing and clapping.