Mars Needs Moms

from ydraughon

As a mom, this book made me cry. Milo gets frustrated because his mom makes him eat all his veggies, clean his room, and take out the trash. But one night aliens come to kidnap his mom. He hides in the spaceship and wonders, why would they want his mom. He realizes that the Martians need moms to ...

from nieva21

It shows children that there are aspects of their parents they will not like, but how to value them as a whole person. It's funny and uniquely perceptive on a little boy's feelings. The way the story unfolds, and makes the little boy feel empowered at the sight of his mother being attacked, not o...

from keatkin

Superb descriptive language of Milo's mother as "summer stealing," a "bellowing broccoli bully" and a "humorless tyrant." The computer generated illustrations also work especially well with the text, adding many contemporary, humorous touches - including the martians using a Starbuck's coffee as ...

from elizabethholloway

Milo doesn't understand what's so great about moms; they constantly make you do stuff you don't want to do. But then the martians come to take his mom away. For some inexplicable reason, Milo stows away. He learns the martians have secret plot to get earth moms who can drive around big station wa...

from tapestry100

Berkeley Breathed takes us on another adventure that is both wild and touching in his book, Mars Needs Moms!. Young Milo sees his mother as nothing more than a bossy, vegetable-pushing, chore-demanding tyrant, and he doesn't quite see what's so special about her. However, on the night that he wit...