A Mommy's Love

A Mommy's Love

One Love, Many Ways

A mother's love can come in many forms. This book helps parents and children alike explore how a mother's love can look different in nature and in our homes. One thing that is constant, is the love within our hearts.

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Front cover of A Mommy's Love by Greer Dear, LCSW

About the Book

A story about the many shapes of being loved.

A Mommy's Love follows a gentle journey through the natural world - a sea turtle who trusts the tide, a seahorse father who carries what his partner cannot, a bunny who protects from a careful distance - and into human homes, where love looks just as varied: two moms, a grandmother's steady care, a chosen family, a father's whole heart, and a mother who is loved and remembered long after she's gone.

Marked by loss, gathered by love.

Written by a licensed clinical social worker, it's a book for grade-school children and the grown-ups reading beside them - especially families navigating loss, distance, or a shape of love the world doesn't always name.

Children's Picture Book Grief & Loss Family Diversity

The Many Forms of Love

Five ways this book says the same true thing.

Every family in these pages loves differently. All of them love completely.

A mother sea turtle and hatchlings, illustration from A Mommy's Love
Sea TurtleA compass
A seahorse family, illustration from A Mommy's Love
SeahorsePartnership
A meadow above a bunny's burrow, illustration from A Mommy's Love
BunnyProtection
A wolf pack and pups, illustration from A Mommy's Love
Wolf PackA pack
A lion and cub resting under a tree, illustration from A Mommy's Love
LionsTradition

From the Book

A real page, exactly as it reads.

Illustration of a mother sea turtle laying eggs at night, from A Mommy's Love Page from A Mommy's Love reading: A mommy's love can be a compass.
Portrait of Greer Dear, LCSW

About the Author

Greer Dear, LCSW

Greer Dear is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over a decade of experience in behavioral health. She works as a therapist, providing virtual support to individuals, couples, and families - and wrote A Mommy's Love to help fill a real gap: honest, age-appropriate ways to talk with children about the hardest parts of family life. Greer is a mother, a partner, and a devoted dog and cat mom, and hopes to grow her reach in support of children and families through literature that is honest, kind, and inclusive.

Why I wrote this book

Themes of death, abuse, loss, and other heavy truths aren't reserved for adults, no matter how much we wish they were. In my work, I've sat face-to-face with children who have experienced the unimaginable - and they are still children. They deserve to be played with, read to, and talked with about their experiences, especially the hard ones. A Mommy's Love is meant to serve as a gentle pastime, a thoughtful gift, or a steady anchor for grade-school-age children navigating difficult topics.

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The exhibition floor at Frankfurt Book Fair Frankfurt Book Fair · 2026

A Mommy's Love in the World

One gentle story joins a global family of readers.

A Mommy's Love shows children that love can arrive in many forms from mothers, fathers, grandparents, chosen family, distance, and remembrance.

At Frankfurt Book Fair 2026, that message became part of an international conversation about books that help children feel seen, safe, and deeply loved.

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Greer Dear smiling beside copies of A Mommy's Love at the vintage market
Copies of A Mommy's Love displayed among colorful stones and plants
Greer Dear at her book-signing table surrounded by plants

From Greer’s Journal

A morning filled with stories, smiles, and love.

What a lovely morning it was!

I recently had the joy of signing copies of A Mommy’s Love: One Love, Many Ways at the vintage market. Surrounded by beautiful plants, flowers, and such kind people, it felt like the perfect setting for a book that’s all about love showing up in many different ways.

I spent the morning chatting with parents, meeting little ones, and sharing the story behind the book. Every smile and every conversation reminded me why I wrote this story in the first place: to gently remind children and the grown-ups who love them that love can look many different ways, and that’s okay.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by, said hello, and made the morning so special. It truly meant a lot.

If you weren’t able to make it, you can still get your copy of the book on Amazon or right here on the website.

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I’m so grateful for these little moments of connection. More soon.

With love, Greer

A Closer Look

The book ends with space for your own reflection.

The final pages open into a real journal - gentle questions for a child (and the grown-up beside them) to answer in their own words.

My Mommy's Love, in My Own Special Journal - the closing reflection pages of A Mommy's Love
Cover of A Mommy’s Love: One Love, Many Ways by Greer Dear

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A Mommy’s Love

One Love, Many Ways

A gentle, inclusive picture book that helps children discover how love can take many forms. Through the animal world and familiar family moments, young readers explore care, protection, partnership, belonging, and the reassuring truth that one love can appear in many ways.

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