A young boy named Max runs away from his mother and sails to an island full of frightening-looking creatures.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Many experts also think Scott Joplin's opera "Treemonisha" included incidents of his life with his mother after Giles Joplin left.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

His mother's increasing deafness led the young man to study acoustics -- the way we hear and how sounds are made.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

One day his mother said When Pierre climbed out of bed Good morning,darling boy, you are my only joy.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

He fled with his mother on the last public flight out of the country before the overthrow of the government.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

His mother, the only woman, he had ever known told him to read the Bible and read it every day.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

He called it "Bound for Glory." He described his childhood, and the pain of watching his mother slowly becoming insane.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

She took a famous photograph of a returning soldier reunited with his mother in South Korea in nineteen fifty-two.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

A boy can be in hot water with his mother, if he comes into the house with dirty,wet shoes.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

When his mother learned of his failing grades she required her sons to read two library books every week.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

His father had left. His mother did not earn much money, so Jackie Robinson learned to make his own way in life.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

He remembers his mother screaming and crying each time she learned that another family member had been killed.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

He had Huntington's Chorea, the same disease of the brain and nervous system that had killed his mother.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

John once said that his mother, Sarah Catherine Kendall Galbraith, wanted him to be a farmer also.

VOA: special.2011.05.01