Outside, a pretty rain fell, making the brown fields shine.

“Ada Ruth,” Mama said. “Do you know I love you more than anything in the world?”

“Yes, ma’am,” I whispered. “More than rain.”

“More than snow,” Mama whispered back, the way we’d done a hundred times before.

Or maybe a hundred thousand.

---quoted from《Coming On Home Soon》, by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by E. B. Lewis

【故事簡介】

戰亂時代，爸爸被徵召去打仗，媽媽到外地工作賺錢，小女孩和外婆留在家中生活。小女孩思念著遠方的媽媽，期待媽媽的來信，等了好久好久，郵差先生終於送來媽媽寫的信，並告訴小女孩她即將返家。

這是一本關於想念與等待的繪本，也是一本流露母女溫暖親情的書。