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Brooke Dyer.
Wilson describes a variety of animal mothers who leave their babies briefly but always return. At the end of the rhyme, a human mother tells her child, "...time will fly right by, and then / I'll be coming home again." The illustrations are full of pleasant mother-child animal portraits, though--like the text--they sometimes approach the overly sweet.