Missing Momma bookcover

Missing Momma

A Picture Book
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Description

A tender picture book about a veteran's PTSD and a family's love for each other--on good days and hard days--from award-winning creators Winsome Bingham and Rahele Jomepour Bell

Momma is a fighter for her country's freedom, and she's also a fighter for her family. When Momma comes home from a long deployment, however, something has changed.

Our narrator, Momma's "Baby," misses the big hugs, uniform fashion shows, and music mornings they used to share. And she really misses planting vegetables together. Now Momma won't even come out to the garden. But maybe, just maybe, she can bring the garden to Momma.

Missing Momma is the poignant and ultimately hopeful, comforting story of a child with a parent affected by PTSD. Sensitively written by Winsome Bingham and movingly illustrated by Rahele Jomepour Bell, Missing Momma beautifully reminds kids that a family's love endures even on days that aren't picture perfect.

Product Details

PublisherHarry N. Abrams
Publish DateOctober 29, 2024
Pages48
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9781419761553
Dimensions11.1 X 9.3 X 0.5 inches | 1.1 pounds
BISAC Categories: Kids, Kids, Kids, Kids

About the Author

Winsome Bingham is a soul food connoisseur, master cook, and a US Army war and disabled veteran. She received both bachelor's and master's degrees in education and has more than 15 years of teaching experience. You can find her writing on a deck while waiting patiently with a camera to capture a submarine shooting out of the water. She lives in Groton, Connecticut.

Reviews

***STARRED REVIEW***
"[M]asterfully rendered...Bingham's text is honest yet child-friendly...A thoughtful, empathetic, and stirring child's-eye view of an all-too-common struggle."--Kirkus Reviews
"This quiet, contemplative picture book sensitively explores the chaotic trauma that war wreaks upon its soldiers, and Bingham gives an honest picture not just of Momma's PTSD but also its secondary effects on the narrator, who aches for a mother who might no longer exist. The art...evokes complicated emotions with stunning ease."--The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

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