When an author manages to convey a mother’s love for her child without getting trapped in a pit of sickly sweet gooey wuvvums, and an editor matches that text with an illustrator whose spare style brings more rich emotion to the project than any overblown, grandiose attempt at recreating Norman Rockwell’s oeuvre but with, say, rhinos as the main characters, well, *that* is a book I can recommend.Alison McGhee’s Someday is the book that women of sense will read to their daughters. With lovely lines such as “Someday your eyes will be filled with a joy so deep that …

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