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A little girl feels big emotions when one of her mom's is away on a business trip. The focus of Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle is love. One of my favorite parts of the book is when it is circle time and the teacher asks the children what or who they are missing. Very sweet. The illustrations by Kaylani Juanita are unique, detailed and joyous. An absolutely darling book!
Second lovely children's book as I catch up on processing new books. I loved the representation in this one book, along with the descriptions of emotions. I feel like it describes the rollercoaster of emotions children feel very well, and how adults/parents should respect and respond to them! Another 10/10
The illustrations were absolutely stunning and the story itself was super sweet!
I enjoyed this one so much I selected it for my phone-in storytime this week. This is a very cute story about a little girl missing her mommy while the mommy is away for a week on a business trip. We follow the little girl and her mama as they go through their week and miss mommy together. Absolutely adorable with great illustrations.
So beautiful and sweet and queer and loving. This book has big feelings and lots of love and I love it.
Just a great picture book about a kid who's at home with one parent, missing another parent who's away. Incredibly sweet and authentic, and the details in illustrations wonderfully add to the text.
this was sososo sweet and adorable i loved it a whole lot
Sweet picture book about missing someone you love so much
Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle is about a little girl who missed her Mommy while she is away for work. Everything is the same that week yet it all seems different when Mommy is away. This story just warmed my heart. For quite a few years my daughter (and then later my son) would have to say goodbye to their Dad for days or a week at a time. The missing would be “as deep as a scuba diver down in the ocean and as high as an astronaut up in the stars”. To quote the story itself. I had to smile...
The combination of Nina LaCour and Kaylani Juanita makes me so happy I feel like I might burst. This picture book is so lovely and sweet, exploring a week when one parent is away for work and the family misses misses misses her. There are some wonderful social-emotional touches and lots to talk about if you read it one-on-one with a child.
When a parent goes away on a work trip, a child marks the passing of time. A straightforward story of one family navigating very real life told through the eyes of the child with wonderful, evocative illustrations showing a mixed race, same sex couple parenting through a week. Race and sexual orientation are not the topic and are not mentioned, just a simple presentation of one family's experience.
It’s never fun to be left behind.One of my favorite scenes happened early on when the main character was in a classroom setting and mentioned missing her Mommy. The details might differ a little from one family to the next, but everyone misses someone they love at one point or another. Seeing how the teacher and her classmates responded to her was heartwarming. I couldn’t have imagined a better response to her admission that she was having a hard time.The only thing I wish had been written diffe...
There are routines that children count on, waking up at a certain time, pancakes for breakfast, and sitting in the middle at the table with parents. This time, the routine is the title, "Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle". Nina LaCour sets it up exactly as this little ME expects. Yet when Mommy goes away for a whole week on a work trip, it doesn't always feel good, or right, anytime. She is missed despite some loving phone calls, she is missed when her favorite blueberries aren't purchased at
A little girl lives with her Mommy and her Mama. When Mommy goes away on a trip, the girl misses her terribly. She does something special with Mama each day of the week that Mommy is away, and talks to her on the phone, but having one parent missing from her life feels tricky. Finally Mommy comes home, but “It isn’t a day for kisses,” the girl tells her. Her patient Mommy understands.What a lovely book! Juanita’s beautiful mixed media art creates the perfect warm, loving, cozy family feel, while...
This might be one of the most beautiful pictures books I've ever read. A small girl's mommy has to leave for a week for work, disrupting their normal routines and leaving an empty space in their warm loving home. What do we do when we miss someone? The illustrations in this book are warm, lush, and the smallest details add lovely atmosphere (the possum family on the fence omg). This book shows people and families as they really are, not as a certain subset of society wants them to be, from the s...
This is a lovely book about a little girl whose mother is on a work trip. While she has fun with Mama while Mommy is away, she desperately misses Mommy. The simple story follows her feelings during the week.The illustrations for this book are outstanding! I really loved the way Juanita illustrates the quiet, everyday love between parents and children. I also appreciated that she illustrated both the little girl and her Mommy as having vitiligo, something I don't see represented much in children'...
