Introduces mothers, ranging from a black car salesperson to an Asian-American horn player to a white overweight appliance repairperson doing various kinds of joys. 9 and up. Probes some universal questions that keep fathers and sons apart. Picturebook story of a little boy's dream. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1974.
Pictures evoke the beauty of a lake at dawn.
A small boy experiences the approach of a summer storm with his mother nearby to explain the wonder of it all.