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Mother's Day is this Sunday, May 12. Here are some recommended books, articles, and blog posts featuring moms, grandmoms, mother figures, and Mother’s Day...
Not breaking news, but motherhood is hard (fatherhood, too; check back next month). Of course it's also all the good stuff — rewarding, gratifying, exhilarating, heartwarming — but easy it is not; and, to borrow from The Princess Bride, "anyone* who says differently is selling something."
Mother's Day is this Sunday, May 12. Here are some recommended books, articles, and blog posts featuring moms, grandmoms, mother figures, and Mother’s Day; find plenty more about mothers (and dads, and grandparents, and other loving caregivers) over at Family Reading.
*society, the government, ourselves, strangers, global pandemic...
Picture Books for Mother's Day list of recommended books from the Guide/Reviews Database
Gaga for Grandmas by Sarah Threlkeld
Happens to the best of us: Elissa shares a moment of pandemic realness while reading Little Women
A Chair for My Mother: Vera B. Williams’ Boston Globe–Horn Book Award acceptance speech
Five Questions for Alice Faye Duncan about Just like a Mama
Lighting the Candle: What Words and Art Can Do by Monica Brown
Lift Every Voice: A Matter of Choice by Shadra Strickland
Books in the Home: Reading with Sophie: Finding Books for a Teen with Special Needs by Catherine Shepard
About six weeks in... by Miriam Steinberg-Egeth and Elissa’s follow-up, Five-plus months in...
Happy Mother's Day!
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