Suggests that when mother and father go away they will return by depicting everyday experiences of parent-child separation which always result in a happy reunion.

Owen's parents try to get him to give up his favorite blanket before he starts school, but when their efforts fail, they come up with a solution that makes everyone happy.

An almost six-year-old girl listens as her mother and father describe her six previous birthday celebrations.

A boy who came from far away to be adopted by a couple in this country remembers how unfamiliar and frightening some of the things were in his new home, before he accepted the love to be found there.

Upset that his parents do not seem to pay any attention to him or care about him, eleven-year-old David becomes even more worried when they deposit him for the summer with a grandmother he hardly knows so that they can go about their own busy lives.

Information on infant care. Covers meeting the baby, feeding, sleep, crying, diapers, hygiene, health and development.