Do you know of any books with positive images of a child with just their mum?

[AttillaTheSaHanTa]

My (single) friend has wanted to have children for years but was holding out for the right man to come along first. Well after waiting for several more years she decided to have a baby on her own and after a successful AI attempt is pregnant. I would really like to get the baby a few books and espcially ones with positive images of a baby/child with just their mum.
Does anyone have or know of such a book?

TIA

Welcome to the club to your friend - we are a very small and exclusive band but please do tell her from me that it is the very best thing I ever did and I haven't regretted it for one nanosecond.

The Donor Conception Network publish a few books for different situations and for different points in the child's life. As far as I know there's just the one about having a mum who chose to have a baby alone but there are lots and lots of books where the characters only seem to have a mum tbh - poor old dads don't get much of a look in.

There is a nice wee baby book called 'Hug' by Jez Alborough which has Bobo the baby chimp looking for his mummy, and obviously finding her at the end. It's very sweet, mainly pictures, and I get quite emotional when Bobo and Mummy are reunited. (Sob!)

the daisy by Kes Gray and Nick Sharratt books seem to only have 'mum' in them - wld be for toddler age plus though some on here

My ds's father buggered off when he was still in the incubator in hospital so there are plenty of times that I feel as if he was conceived by AI. We are the only single parent family we know but my ds (4)doesn't have any issues about not having a dad in his life and is happy to read books that include a dad. He understands the concept of a 'dad' as all his friends have one. Sometimes he does ask to see him (no contact since ds was a few days old, his dad's choice) but not often.

I worried dreadfully about what I'd do when those sort of questions arose but it hasn't been that bad. I don't make up stories but I'd never tell him the truth - his dad hoped he'd die in hospital . You can easily be a positive role model for your dc whatever your reason for being a lone parent.

Harry and the bucketful of dinosaurs, there seems to be no father figure in that book.....
little bear stories are good but i think they are a bit more dad centred...
My dc has good contact with his dad, but Im probably not going down the partner road again too scary! So will probably be a lone parent for a long while yet....

There's a huge train book in WH Smith by Usborne. Have bought it for my baby's Christmas, it's great. It has a big wind up train that goes round the tracks inside the books! The kids in it, Poppy and Sam have a working mum but dad isn't mentioned - what a pleasant surprise.
Peepo by Janet and Allan Ahlberg would be such a great book if it didn't have that perfect helpful dad in. I actually was put off buying it because of that. Though DS has to get a role model from somewhere I suppose

Was also going to recommend the Harry and the bucketful of dinsaours - Harry and his sister live my mum and gran and seem to have a normal family life.

Sarah Garland books such as this.

I know it's an odd link, but it showed one of the inside pages as well.

There wasn't a father in these books.

Also found "Doing the Garden" here which is a better link.