Moms do all kinds of things, look different, and have different family structures, but all love and adore their children, asserts this joyful, rhyming ode to motherhood, which includes two two-mom families in it.
One page shows a two-mom family at a rally, wearing pink pussyhats and holding signs with a women’s symbol and a pink cat on them. One child holds a rainbow flag; the other holds a megaphone. The text reads, “Some moms are quiet./And some moms are loud!/Some moms are flashy, vocal, and proud.” On another page, two women stand close and could be read as a couple as the text says, “Some moms wear trousers./And some like a dress.” Several of the moms have short hair, and several have gender atypical careers, like jockey and soldier.
Author/illustrator Fifi Abu’s brightly patterned, slightly whimsical images make the book visually fun as well.
The book encapsulates basically the same idea as Sarah Kate Ellis and Kristen Ellis-Henderson’s All Moms, but each showcases slightly different attributes and activities. All Moms is a little more successful, I think, at incorporating moms with recognizably queer aesthetics (although there is some obvious subjectivity here, since not even all queer people are recognizably queer), as well as at least one with a possibly trans identity; it also explicitly includes single moms, grandmothers who care as moms, and two-dad pairs who do the same. Nevertheless, Some Moms is a joyous and inclusive read and a recommended title for moms, those they love, and those who love them. If you have moms in your family, there’s no reason not to have both books on your shelves.
