Mother’s Day 2021 (this Sunday, May 9, people) is, of course, the second one to fall during the pandemic. Boston Public Garden’s Duckling Day is virtual yet again, which means you don’t need to be local to be a part of the celebration. (Read more by and about the Ducklings' papa, Robert McCloskey, here.) 

Here are some recommended books, articles, and blog posts featuring moms, mother figures, and Mother’s Day; find plenty more about mothers (and dads, and grandparents, and other loving caregivers) over at Family Reading. 

• "Picture Books for Mother's Day" list of recommended books from the Guide/Reviews Database. 

• “Happens to the best of us” Family Reading’s co-parent Elissa shares a moment of pandemic realness 

• “Drawing comfort from shared reading” by Megan Dowd Lambert 

• Five Questions for Alice Faye Duncan about Just like a Mama 

• "About six weeks in..." by Miriam Steinberg-Egeth and Elissa’s follow-up, "Five-plus months in..." 

• Books in the Home: "Reading with Sophie: Finding Books for a Teen with Special Needs" by Catherine Shepard 

• "Mama-Llama Day 2018" 

• "Lift Every Voice: A Matter of Choice" by Shadra Strickland 

• “The Straight Poop on Potty Humor” by Family Reading co-parents Elissa Gershowitz and Kitty Flynn 

• "Mother: Treat Her Right" 

• “Words for Flora’s Mother (and Other Imperfect Parents)” by Megan Dowd Lambert (May/June 2014) 

• YA mother-daughter reading recommendations 

• “The Adventures of Mommy Buzzkill” by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (March/April 2009) 

• "A Chair for My Mother: Vera B. Williams’ Boston Globe–Horn Book Award acceptance speech" 

• Review of Mothers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism edited by Lisa Rowe Fraustino and Karen Coats 

Happy Mother's Day!