The Music Box

The Music Box · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.

On the cover of The Child Who Called Me Mom, the motif is identified as “The Music Box.” A seven-year-old girl in the hospital calls her nurse ‘Mom’—and knows her lullaby.

The motif, its illustration, and its appearances can be compared. A resemblance proves neither that the same object has traveled nor that two stories share a continuity.