I am trying to remember the title and author of a children’s book.  It had pictures.  It was about a little boy with an extremely overbearing mother.  Or maybe it was about a man with an extremely overbearing wife.  At a certain point, the woman is carried off by a large bird, and then the boy (or man) has a peaceful life.

I can’t imagine what the title might have been.  So-and-so’s mother?  The bossy wife?

I read the book as a child, in the late 60’s or early 70’s.

I remember the picture of the bird carrying off the woman – she was large but got smaller and smaller as the bird flew away.