Mother [Paperback]

Mary Higgins Clark (Author), Maya Angelou (Author), Amy Tan (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Pocket Books (May 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0614976529
• ISBN-13: 978-0614976526
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Maya Angelou has been waitress, singer, actress, dancer, activist, filmmaker, writer and mother. As well as her autobiography she has written several volumes of poetry, including 'On the Pulse of the Morning' for the inauguration of President Clinton. She now has a life-time appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Captures the love you have for your baby, perfectly., September 29, 2006

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mom2jax - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me (Hardcover)

I have never written a review, I'm the person who always reads but never writes. I saw that this book didn't have 5 stars average so I had to review it. Becoming a mother is the most miraculous and blessed thing that has ever happened to me - most Mothers will agree. This book pulled at my heart as it captured that love between me and my Son so perfectly. I read this book and cry every time. I will buy this book for each of my friends as they have their first children. Never has a book been so meaningful to me.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cradle Your Child as You Read Her This Book!, June 22, 2006

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Ruth Z. Deming "Backyard Trees" (Willow Grove, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me (Hardcover)

Motherhood is colorblind, but it's especially apt that the 78-year-old Maya Angelou sings praises for The Beleaguered Black Mother. Not only is the content delicious, but the unpaginated 10-page slender vanilla volume is elegantly designed. Rather than plow through a tome of childhood psychology, the reader gains four minutes of insights on mothering from birth through emancipation as an adult. Cliches are rescued by gems such as "nougats of glee" and "from my high perch of teenage wisdom." This is sentimentality at its best. How could it be otherwise, Dear Mother!

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Most Expensive Chap Book I've Ever Seen, May 21, 2006

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bookfanatic (CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me (Hardcover)

The book description is 32 pages, but I counted only 10 pages (printed singe-sided) with one poem on each page so that makes ten poems. And this goes for $9.95 not including shipping and taxes. Hmmm....

I like much of Maya Angelou's works, but I could barely read through all the poems, and consquently the entire book (which took all of 5 minutes). The poems were not particularly good, elegant, or insightful.

Well, I'm just plain shocked that Random House and Maya decided that ten short poems constituted a book.