One-to-many associations can be created with {@link Model#belongsTo belongsTo}, {@link Model#hasMany hasMany}, {@link Model#morphMany morphMany} / {@link Model#morphTo morphTo}, and some of the {@link Model#through through} relation types. var Book = bookshelf.Model.extend({ tableName: 'books', pages: function() { return this.hasMany(Page); } }); var Page = bookshelf.Model.extend({ tableName: 'pages', book: function() { return this.belongsTo(Book); } }); A Knex migration for the above relationship could be created with: exports.up = function(knex, Promise) { return knex.schema.createTable('books', function(table) { table.increments('id').primary(); table.string('name'); }).createTable('pages', function(table) { table.increments('id').primary(); table.string('content'); table.integer('book_id').references('books.id') }); }; exports.down = function(knex, Promise) { return knex.schema.dropTable('books') .dropTable('pages'); };