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

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.

As a child explains the many happy, loving things Mommy does, many different animal mothers are shown caring for their young. On board pages.

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.

Kitty Kilroy wishes her mother would go away so that she would stop telling Kitty what not to do.