"Tucked in bed at a new apartment, a boy and his mother trade favorite memories. Some are idyllic, like a picnic with Dad, but others are more surprising: a fall from a bike into soft piled hay, the smell of an old oil lamp when a rainstorm blew the power out. Now it's just the two of them, and the house where all those memories happened is far away. But maybe someday, this will be a favorite memory, too: happy and sad, an end and a beginning intertwined....

David finds a lot of things funny that the people around him--including his mother--do not find at all amusing.

Little Bear's four adventures include taking a trip to the moon and having a birthday party.

"A ... picture book about the joys of waiting and taking in what is around you"-- Provided by publisher.

Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.

"An excited and frustrated boy watches hopefully as wintry weather develops slowly into a 'big snow.'"-- Provided by publisher.

Jim wakes up hungry, just not for the pancakes his mother is fixing--so his imagination takes over, and he pictures himself as a lion checking out the possibilities for breakfast (including his mother).

Patrick Edward's fierce monster mother helps him deal with some obnoxious bullies.

Two boys discover that their mother loves them equally but in different ways.

Little Bear looks forward to giving his mother a valentine and to figuring out who the secret admirer is who sent him one.