Orem Library

In this beautiful new edition of a timeless picture book classic, a child asks, Will it be okay? A mother comforts a child about her special fears concerning a thunderstorm, the weather and gardening, a bee sting, having powerful feelings, and losing a loved one.

After spending too much time playing with his favorite toy, Billy and his mother are late for nursery school, and his mother forgets some crucial things as she rushes to work.

A young boy helps his mother realize how her bad mood is affecting everyone in the family.

After interviewing mothers at the park, the toy store, and the zoo, Maxine decides that her own mother is worth keeping.

A mother shares the magic of a snowy night with her baby.

Kate Reddy, a hedge fund manager and mother of two, struggles to juggle her professional and personal lives and to balance--often unsuccessfully--on the tightrope of work and home.

Mother animals instruct their little ones to stretch, scratch, or snuggle as the reader counts the babies while wandering through farm, forst, and fields.

From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes and acclaimed illustrator Elizabeth Zunon comes an adventurous bath time story.

Night has fallen and Mom and Dad need to get their little one in the tub. To make it more fun, Mom brings a magical adventure out at sea to life, where the faucet is a waterfall, a rubber ducky is a sea creature, and the splashing water is a raging sea! In their ocean journey,

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Exploring the pond on his own and visiting his friends--Dragonfly, Little Polliwog, and the Centipedes--Dandelion Duckling keeps his ears open for his mother's quacks warning him of danger, but when his mother fails to see the weasel in the willows one afternoon, it is up to Dandelion to remember the lessons he's been taught.

Louie enjoys playing "Gotcha!" with his mother at the beach.