From the Bookshelf of Meggie & Mo's Booklist…

[close] She used to search her books for a suitable mother, but there were hardly any mothers in her favorite stories. Tom Sawyer? No mother. Huck Fin? Ditto. Peter Pan and the Lost Boys? Not a mother in sight. Jim Button was motherless, too -- and all you found in fairy tales were wicked stepmothers; heartless, jealous stepmothers...the list could go on forever.

Inkheart, chapt. 29, p. 285