Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.

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.

A mother and child discuss how the mother's love would remain constant even if her child were a smelly skunk, scary ape, or bug-eating green alien. On board pages.

When the world tips upside down, baby animals tumble out of bed, landing in the arms of different mothers.

Describes, in rhyming text and illustrations, a mother's love for her child no matter how he feels or what he does.

Alice wants everything in her bedroom to be blue before she falls asleep.

"Pookie gets ready for bed, with a little Pookie flair"--Page 4 of cover

Little Bear and Sal both go berrying with their mothers, but after sitting down to rest, they each end up following the other one's mother.