This honest, humorous memoir describes the adventures mother and daughter share and celebrates travel, motherhood, and life itself.

Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel combine their writing and illustrating talents with their own family memories to produce a very unique travelogue. Family vacations are supposed to be something to look forward to. Unless, that is, your parents have a habit of turning every outing into a risky proposition -- by accident, of course. So instead of dream vacations to Disney World and motels with swimming pools, these parents are always looking for that out-of-the-way destination where other tourists don't go. Their adventures involve eating grasshoppers in Mexico, forgetting the tide schedule while collecting sand dollars off the coast of Georgia, and mistaking alligators for logs in the middle of Okefenokee Swamp. Travels with My Family is told from the point of view of a long-suffering big brother who must fulfill many roles in this eccentric family: keep little brother out of trouble, humor artist Mom, and discourage Dad from pulling out the road map to search for yet another off-the-beaten-track destination. Husband-and-wife team Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel and have combined their prodigious writing and illustrating talents with their own family memories to produce a very different travelogue. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions).

Two traveling sisters, Jordyn and Kennedy, visit Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with their family. Learn about Rio de Janeiro and the activities Jordyn and Kennedy did on their trip. You might get some ideas for a vacation to that destination as well!

Have you ever found yourself, without even realising you'd been lost? From mountain-top Buddhist retreats to Ayahuasca tea parties, alongside a vigorous commitment to exploring myriad therapeutic options that offered a pathway back to herself, Laura Fraser has spent the better part of the last 23 years trying to better understand how she might learn to one day, finally, truly, trust herself. Yet despite years of therapy, meditation, yoga and travels all over the world, in the end she found her greatest inspiration where she'd least expected it: in motherhood. Single motherhood. As Laura navigates the path of a lone parent, she learns not only how to mother her daughter, Eve, but also herself; discovering that motherhood is not a place where we become lost, but is instead a conduit to rediscover who we truly are. The sleepless nights and endless days, the joys of each step forward and lows of each step back; all are beautifully rendered here, as Laura reconnects to part of herself that, amidst the chaos of life, she'd forgotten existed. This is a grown-up, thought-out answer for anyone navigating early parenthood, whilst trying to create a beautiful childhood for their children amidst turbulence that can feel as if it has the power to threaten exactly that. It's a book for those who would like to be reconnect to precious memories, and for all those mothers trying to remember the beauty, resilience and potential in their own hearts.It's a book about finding the truth of self amidst the mundane, magical and intimate moments that make up motherhood. It's about the relationships we nurture, ignore, appreciate, misunderstand or damage with those who are most important to us. Finally, it's a book about the relationship we have with ourselves. Funny, occasionally dark, serene, sometimes angry, but always spiritual and genuine, Travels With My Daughter is a meditative and incisive series of snapshots of the magical moments in our lives that are too often overlooked. It's a book for those immersed in motherhood, struggling in a new relationship, or simply yearning to be reminded of what they already know.

Between 1998 and 2000, Sue and Ann travel throughout Greece and France. Sue, coming to grips with aging, caught in a creative vacuum, longing to reconnect with her grown daughter, struggles to enlarge a vision of swarming bees into a novel. Ann, just graduated from college, heartbroken and benumbed by the classic question about what to do with her life, grapples with a painful depression. As this modern-day Demeter and Persephone chronicle the richly symbolic and personal meaning of an array of inspiring figures and sites, they also each give voice to that most protean of connections: the bond of mother and daughter.

"You could say I had an unconventional upbringing. At the age of four, I was sharing my bedroom with Bob Dylan, and by the time I was fifteen, I had been taken out of school to go traveling and was smoking joints with my mother." Some may be shocked at the adventures mother and daughter share, but everyone will admire Niema’s celebration of travel, motherhood, and life itself, as this honest and often humourous account describes how she copes with: The overwhelming desire to travel, which conflicts with the responsibilites of motherhood. Finding the confidence to believe in herself and her instincts. Being a single mother in the sixties while mixing with some of the most talented poets and musicians of our time, including Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Irving Layton, Seamus Heaney, and Joni Mitchell. Developing a unique mother-daughter bond that many only dream about. This book will touch a hidden nerve in everyone who reads it as it turns a world of convention and protocol upside-down!

Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw's Papa Brings Me the World is a poignant picture book that celebrates the bond between parent and child, and follows their long-distance trip around the world. Most parents drive a car or ride a bus or train to work—but not Lulu’s papa. He navigates mountains, deserts, and oceans, each time returning home with pockets full of treasures. There’s an ancient calculator from China, a musical mbira from Zimbabwe, and a special game from Sumatra. But the best treasures are special stories Papa tells when he comes home—tales of playing peekaboo with rare birds in the Andes and befriending dragons in the Irish Sea. This long-distance love story between parent and child celebrates inclusivity, imagination, and the richness of global cultures. Christy Ottaviano Books