After a mother makes a gingerbread rabbit to surprise her daughter, the rabbit magically comes to life.

Impatient to go trick-or-treating, a young witch tries her mother's spells on a warthog without success, until a mysterious old man teaches her the art of persuasion.

When a young girl has a series of mishaps at home one day, her mother tries not to lose her temper--and does not quite succeed.

When her mother becomes too ill to harvest tea on the nearby plantation, Shenaz is too small to fill in, but when she tells the monkeys she has befriended why she is sad, they bring her a basket filled with rare and valuable wild tea.

When she goes to her grandmother's house for the first time, Zoey finds a tiny china doll that comes alive in her hands and believes that she is a princess and that Zoey is her servant.

Violet is very helpful when she visits her mother's office, and gives pointers on delivering the mail (be sure to decorate it with extra stamps and stickers), helping the boss with his big presentation (like a show-and-tell for grown-ups), and making business cards (after clearing the paper jam in the copier).

When Saya's mother is sent to jail as an illegal immigrant, she sends her daughter a cassette tape with a song and a bedtime story, which inspires Saya to write a story of her own--one that just might bring her mother home.

Little Brownmouse likes to laugh and play with her mother, and every funny or sweet thing her mother does, Little Brownmouse likes to have it happen twice.