Went to the New York Public Library and apparently you can’t just look at the books. You can think about looking at the books but you can’t look at the books without an appointment. Wild.
Many kids movies have a mom that has passed. I thought it was just a Disney thing, but it’s still happening. The most recent iteration that I am watching is Sketch. So either mothers dying is just an inescapable trope, or they must be impossible to cast in most kids movies.