What Was My Mother Thinking?

"When my mom woke me up for school, all I could think was, "What was my mother thinking?" You know how when you fall down and blood comes out of the sidewalk and gets on your knee? . . . Or when you hear the Ice Cream Truck tinkling down your street and you eat the Strawberry Surprise-the color your lips and tongue become? . . . Or when you decide to make cherry dessert and bump the handle of the pan and it spills all over the white tile? . . . Well, that was the color of my mother's hair!!!!! Red, it was RED!! What was my mother thinking?"

Advised by anyone who will lend a sympathetic ear-father, brother, grandmother, even the pet dogs and cockatoo-the search is on for someone who understands the shock of it all. Depicted by Joy Miletello's extraordinary illustrations and Faith Hodkin's insightful and clever writing, we are taken on a journey through a child's world of seeking understanding to this amazingly giant dilemma-what do you do when your mom changes? The answer can be elusive-and sometimes we discover it where it's always been-right inside ourselves!