A Mother Is a Home

In this striking, neon-bright picture book, a baby sees its mother in every aspect of every day, from birth to first steps.

A mother's a house, She's a car in a rush, She's a lullaby hush.

As the pages turn, and the baby grows, Mother becomes a road, a story, a show, with illustrations that are sometimes literal, sometimes unexpected. By the last page, the baby is ready to take its first steps, for Mother is the home you always carry inside you.

A Mother is a House presents baby's first year from a unique infant's point of view, capturing all the delightful observations and emotions of a mother and baby's first year together—rendered in bright, modern illustrations and special inks.

This is a stylish and elegant gift book for expectant parents, baby showers, new mothers, Mother's Day, or as a celebratory gift for a daughter or grandparent.

Aurore Petit is one of a new generation of young French illustrators to have graduated from the influential School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg. She lives in Paris.