Books like Lily Hates Goodbyes: All Military Edition
By Jerilyn Marler
For the military kid who counts down days on a calendar and aches for a parent who's far away, Lily's story puts words to a wait that can feel too big to hold. tender, reassuring, honest about hard feelings but landing on hope
A young military child named Lily has to say goodbye to her Navy Daddy for a deployment that feels like a billion days, and must find her way through the swirl of hard feelings until she can joyfully welcome him home.
A little girl always sits between Mama and Mommy at the table — but when Mommy leaves on a work trip, she has to figure out a new place to sit and a new way to carry how much she misses her.
A little girl flies with her family all the way to Holland to visit her grandparents, but somewhere along the journey, her beloved Knuffle Bunny goes missing again.
A little girl can't join her mom on a trip, so she sends her toy dog Charlie the Cavalier in her suitcase instead, trusting him to keep her mom safe and close.
A young beaver named Buckley carves small wooden boats and sends them out to sea, each one carrying a note to the father he's lost.
A young raccoon dreads his first day of school until his mother teaches him a secret family trick — a kiss pressed into his palm — to carry her love with him into the unknown.
A gentle, repeating question moves through the animal world — from kangaroos to lions to dolphins — showing every baby, a joey, a cub, a calf, has a mother who loves it.
A young boy named Bobby, once taught to walk by his beloved Grandpa Bob, faces the challenge of teaching his grandfather to walk again after a stroke changes everything.
A little bird named Choco longs for a mother and searches among all kinds of animals, none of whom look like him, before finding one in a warm, unexpected shape.
During World War II, a young girl stays behind with her grandma when her mama leaves for Chicago to fill a wartime job, and the two wait together through winter for word that Mama is coming home.
A little girl adores her shiny yellow rain boots until the day she discovers her feet have grown too big to fit inside them anymore.
At the Central Park Zoo, two male penguins named Roy and Silo build a nest together, and a kindly zookeeper gives them an abandoned egg to hatch and raise as their own.
