Mom, Mama, and Me

Overview

Mom, Mama, and Me is a 2010 CreateSpace picture book credited in Open Library records to Tina Rella, Monica Meza, and Molly Summer. The local catalog identifies this item as the adoption variant in a four-book companion group about children in lesbian- and gay-parent families. It parallels Mom, Mama, and Me...And How I Came to Be!, but changes the family-making explanation from donor conception to adoption. Public evidence for this exact variant is thinner than for the donor-conception companion, so the responsible record is concise: it preserves bibliographic identity, series placement, and the adoption distinction without adding claims that require the held copy.^{[1][2][3][4][9]}

Variant In A Companion Set

The item is best understood through its companion structure. The local catalog describes four related books: two about a child with two mothers and two about a child with two fathers. Within that set, Mom, Mama, and Me is the two-mother adoption variant. That makes it useful even when the public source trail is small. It lets the collection compare how nearly parallel stories change when the family-making explanation changes from donor conception, egg donation, or surrogacy to adoption.^[1][2][3][9]

Adoption And Disclosure

The local catalog says the story follows the same classroom question pattern as its donor-conception companion, but resolves the child's origin story through adoption. That detail places the book in a wider child-facing literature about disclosure: when children ask where a parent is, or how a family came to be, the story gives adults language for answering. The collection record avoids quoting the text, but can still identify the item as part of a practical genre of origin-story books.^[1][2][7]

Small-Press Family Formation

The CreateSpace record matters because these books were made for a narrow, practical readership. They are less visible than trade titles such as Heather Has Two Mommies or And Tango Makes Three, but they answer a different need: a family may want a book that names adoption, sperm donation, egg donation, or surrogacy in language for young children. The item therefore belongs to the collection's map of use, not only its map of literary reputation.^[2][3][9][8]

A Thin But Important Record

Public evidence for this exact adoption variant is concentrated in catalog and bibliography traces. Open Library preserves the title, creators, publisher, date, page count, and ISBN, while Goodreads and resource lists preserve the broader companion group. That is enough for a searchable collection item, but not enough for a long standalone essay. The best public treatment is precise and modest: identify the book, place it in its companion set, and mark the adoption distinction as the reason this copy matters.^[2][4][5][9]

Timeline

1. 2010PublicationOpen Library records Mom, Mama, and Me as a 2010 CreateSpace title.^[2]
2. 2010Companion publicationOpen Library records the donor-conception companion Mom, Mama, and Me...And How I Came to Be! in the same year.^[3]
3. 2010sResource-list circulationFamily and fertility resource lists continued to circulate related Rella family-formation titles.^[7][8]
4. 2010sChecklist placementA children's books checklist lists Mom, Mama, and Me and its companion title among picture books portraying LGBT parents.^[9]

Love Makes A Family Companion Group

The collection record is strongest when the four family-formation variants are read together.

Citation

Mom, Mama, and Me. Tina Rella, Monica Meza, and Molly Summer. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010. Tarpey-Schwed LGBT Families Children's Book Special Collection, Mechanics' Institute. Collection ID: KB-049.

Sources

1. Local collection catalog record for Mom, Mama, and Me · catalog
2. Open Library work and edition record for Mom, Mama, and Me · library
3. Open Library ISBN record for Mom, Mama, and Me... and How I Came to Be! · library
4. Goodreads author page for Tina Rella · reader_catalog
5. Goodreads author page for Monica Meza · reader_catalog
6. Books for Children on donor conception, surrogacy, and IVF · bibliography
7. Diane Cotel resources list for talking with children about conception and origins · resource_list
8. Covington & Hafkin recommended reading list · resource_list
9. Children's Books Portraying LGBT Parents checklist · bibliography