My sister, my brothers, and I had got this book some years back for my mom (probably mostly my sister who got it and helped us sign our names lol). I picked this up recently to see what kind of message it shared with mothers, and I was pleasantly surprised by the way the book uses pictures of mothers and children from the natural animal world to show various duties performed by mothers in everyday human life. I also thought the author found a unique style of using these pictures as a sort of launching point for talking about and thanking his own mother for all she's done for him.