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Children's and Young Adult Literature
in a Multicultural Society


Reading Record


Title: Mama, Do You Love Me?
Author: Barbara M. Joosse
Illustrator: Barbara Lavallee
ISBN: 0-87701-759-X
Year Published: 1991
Genre: Picture Storybook
Number of Pages: 24
Themes:
  • No matter who or what you are your parents will always love you.
Summary:
Through a series of questions a little girl asks her mother, she learns that her mother's love is unconditional.
Comments:
This is a really nicely written story that assures that no matter what a child is or does a parent will always love them. It has beautiful illustrations. The story is about an Inuit mother and daughter, and the last pages have a nice summary on the Inuit and some term definitions used in the book relating to Inuit culture.