Mother’s Day is this Sunday, May 10th! If you look forward to the annual Make Way for Ducklings Parade in the Boston Public Garden, there are virtual events this year (you can read more by and about the Ducklings' papa, Robert McCloskey, here.)

We've reviewed several books about moms and mother figures recently in the Magazine (see In My Anaana's Amautik, Home Base: A Mother-Daughter Story and My Mama, all rev. 5/20; Just like a Mama, Mama Baby, and Mother Jones and Her Army of Mill Children, all rev. 3/20) and the Guide/Reviews Database has just posted a new "Picture Books for Mother's Day" list of recommended books.

Here are a few more recommended books, articles, and blog posts featuring moms, mother figures, and Mother’s Day; find plenty more about mothers (and dads, and grandparents, and other loving caregivers) over at Family Reading.

• Five Questions for Alice Faye Duncan about Just like a Mama
• "About six weeks in..." by Miriam Steinberg-Egeth 
• Books in the Home: "Reading with Sophie: Finding Books for a Teen with Special Needs" by Catherine Shepard
• "Mama-Llama Day 2018"
• "Lift Every Voice: A Matter of Choice" by Shadra Strickland
• “The Straight Poop on Potty Humor” by Family Reading co-parents Elissa Gershowitz and Kitty Flynn
• "Mother: Treat Her Right"
• “Words for Flora’s Mother (and Other Imperfect Parents)” by Megan Dowd Lambert (May/June 2014)
• YA mother-daughter reading recommendations
• “The Adventures of Mommy Buzzkill” by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (March/April 2009)
• "A Chair for My Mother: Vera B. Williams’ Boston Globe–Horn Book Award acceptance speech"
• Review of Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism edited by Lisa Rowe Fraustino and Karen Coats

Happy Mother's Day!