Description
When Mama Comes Home Tonight is a children's book that celebrates the mother-child relationship. It is a gentle lullaby book that celebrates the everyday moments of a working mother and her child.
No other bedtime book addresses working families as effectively as
When Mama Comes Home Tonight. Now available as A Classic Board Book edition, it is sure to become a favorite of both mothers and children.
The remains of the day are softly romanticized in this gentle lullaby book about a mother and child reunion. "When Mama comes home from work, dear child, when Mama comes home tonight, she'll say, 'Let's put your blocks away--the red, the green, the white.' She'll fix herself a cup of tea, and let you have a sip. She'll mend your blue pajamas and her own pink satin slip." The real-life weekday evenings of a working mother and her child may not be as rosy and calm; in this lovely interlude there's also time for pat-a-cake, stargazing, and plenty of rocking chair cuddles. But like a simple prayer, Eileen Spinelli's rhyming verse and Mem Fox's (
Time for Bed) creamy pastel illustrations praise this everlasting mother-child connection and offer hope for the peaceful nights and soothing images we long for. (Click to see a sample spread. From
When Mama Comes Home Tonight, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Text 1998 by Eileen Spinelli. Illustrations 1998 by Jane Dyer.) (Baby to preschool)
--Gail Hudson
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