When Mom leaves for work, Rachel and her little brother are just eating dinner. By bedtime, they know their mom is hard at work in the factory. Their special time comes very early in the morning, when Rachel hears Mom come home. That's when she and Josh spend a sleepy, loving morning with their mother, waiting for the dawn's early light.

In gentle prose and warm, appealing pictures, Karen Ackerman and Catherine Stock show what it is like to have a parent who works when most people are sleeping, and how one special family still finds time to be together.