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A beautiful love letter to everyday moments--celebrating mother-child connection, emotional security, and the radiant joy of Black family life.
From 2025-2026 Young People's Poet Laureate and Coretta Scott King Award-winner Carole Boston Weatherford comes a lyrical board book that transforms simple, shared experiences into treasured memories.
Whether it's sliding at the park, building forts together, or wishing on dandelion puffs, every moment with Mama feels magical. With soothing rhyme and vibrant, inclusive illustrations, this book captures the comforting rhythms of love, play, and togetherness--perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, and the grownups who adore them.
This book is an ideal gift for baby showers, birthdays, Mother's Day, and beyond. Parents, caregivers, and teachers alike will appreciate the gentle storytelling and affirming visuals that support emotional growth, family bonding, and joyful reflection.
Named the 2025-2026 Young People's Poet Laureate, Carole Boston Weatherford earned a BA from American University, an MA from the University of Baltimore, and an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her more than eighty books have won the NAACP Image Award, a Coretta Scott King Award, and a Newbery Honor. She often writes about African American history, traditions, families and music. Weatherford is the winner of a Ragan-Rubin Award for Literary Achievement from the North Carolina English Teachers Association and the North Carolina Award for Literature. Formerly an English professor, she lives in Maryland.
Ashleigh Corrin is a two-time award-winning children's book illustrator. She received the 2020 Ezra Jack Keats Award for Illustration for her debut picture book, Layla's Happiness by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, and was honored with the inaugural Margaret Wise Brown Board Book Award for Me and the Family Tree by Carole Boston Weatherford.
- Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
- Publish Date: April 5, 2022
- Pages: 24
- Language: English
- Type: Board Book
- EAN/UPC: 9781728242460
- Dimensions: 6.8 X 6.9 X 0.6 inches | 0.6 pounds
- BISAC Categories: Kids
