These two books about falling and being scarily on one’s own exemplify the well-meaning but sometimes overly message-y trend. In MAMA IN THE MOON (Rocky Pond, 40 pp., $18.99, ages 2 to 5 ...

which follows the previous titles in the series Your Baby’s First Word Will Be DADA, Everything Is MAMA, This Is BABY, and NANA Loves You More. Fans applauded his book series on Instagram.

The book ends with Sister Bear starting a No Boys Allowed club in retaliation against Brother’s No Girls Allowed club, only to be convinced by Mama that exclusion isn’t fun for anyone.

Early in the century a fine, fiery Irish-Cornish lady named Marie Connor Leighton wrote throbbing serial stories with titles like Fires ... all her Edwardian glory. Mama first fell madly in ...

DARIEN — In the 10 years since writing “Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation," Edwidge Danticat said she had never heard of any attempts to restrict her book.