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The Girls Body Book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up You!
You have questions? We have answers to everything you need to know for growing up you!
Growing up isn’t as easy as it looks. With changing emotions, friends, expectations, and bodies, some days it can seem like life is one big roller coaster ride. The Girl’s Body Book is here to help with expert advice, common sense tips, fast facts, and answers to all questions a girl might have.
Topics covered include:
* From hair care to high heels, a head-to-toe guide to what’s happening with your changing body
* Dealing with your friends, even when they don’t want to deal with you – and how to handle “Mean Girls," bullies, and cyberbullies
* The care and keeping of parents, teachers, brothers, and sisters
* Finding out what you like (from sports to art to music), and learning to like who you are
* And so much more!
Growing up isn’t as easy as it looks. With changing emotions, friends, expectations, and bodies, some days it can seem like life is one big roller coaster ride. The Girl’s Body Book is here to help with expert advice, common sense tips, fast facts, and answers to all questions a girl might have.
Topics covered include:
* From hair care to high heels, a head-to-toe guide to what’s happening with your changing body
* Dealing with your friends, even when they don’t want to deal with you – and how to handle “Mean Girls," bullies, and cyberbullies
* The care and keeping of parents, teachers, brothers, and sisters
* Finding out what you like (from sports to art to music), and learning to like who you are
* And so much more!
132 pages, Paperback
First published June 3, 2008
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January 9, 2023
Wish my parents had bought me this when I was a kid.
August 15, 2015
Very well written. Will be passing it on to my girls to read now.
March 29, 2023
2.5 stars. I’ll use a small portion of the book but will need to continue looking for something that will fit my family better.
This book needs to be revised to use anatomically correct names. Pubic hair grows on the vulva not in the vagina.
It also glosses over the details of menstruation and how it actually works. My child’s personality will lead them to ask the tougher questions of mechanics, including specific hormonal details (our periods are not only about estrogen!), and this text does not go into the detail I know I will need.
Finally, the book spends a huge amount of time on physical appearance of girls. I know, as a woman who was once a girl, that physical appearance is a concern - but I would have preferred this was done in a more way that acknowledges that appearance does not equate to one’s self worth.
Also, in the bra section - add a sentence that girls don’t need to wear bras if they don’t want to. Simple.
This book needs to be revised to use anatomically correct names. Pubic hair grows on the vulva not in the vagina.
It also glosses over the details of menstruation and how it actually works. My child’s personality will lead them to ask the tougher questions of mechanics, including specific hormonal details (our periods are not only about estrogen!), and this text does not go into the detail I know I will need.
Finally, the book spends a huge amount of time on physical appearance of girls. I know, as a woman who was once a girl, that physical appearance is a concern - but I would have preferred this was done in a more way that acknowledges that appearance does not equate to one’s self worth.
Also, in the bra section - add a sentence that girls don’t need to wear bras if they don’t want to. Simple.
August 21, 2022
I have read the book in 2022 as an adult. The book was published in 2008 and i found it at a used book store. I'm curious if this has been updated recently to coincide with being 16 years later? Still 4 stars as many topics are helpful.
July 31, 2023
HIGHEST recommendation for this!
August 22, 2023
The information is legitimate but the language is antiquated. There are undertones of period shaming and having to keep what happens a secret. Assumption language galore.
February 5, 2012
This is a great book for girls to learn about what is happening to them and to start conversations about the things they need to know as they grow into a young adult. Great fun illustrations and easy to relate to language.
August 8, 2012
this book was so helpful, while i was a preteen and all. So it halped me alot!!! alll ur pubrity questions will be answered in this book, it is quick, easy and so helpful. I recommend this book to allll girls!!!
December 30, 2014
This is a well done book. There are a couple of area the author gets into that perhaps I'll be skipping over (for now) with my kid, but on the whole, well written for a girl who is just starting to go through changes to help her know what's coming and to take away the fear factor of the unknown.
July 10, 2019
Bought for my ten year old. Appreciate the broad range of subjects and the inclusion of disability. Very cis and heteronormative however. One mention that some families have two moms or two dads but assumed that girls reading would only be interested in boys and would all be cis.
August 11, 2013
I think this book really helps me for when I am growing up! :) x
March 3, 2016
Good. Not quite as good as Care and Keeping of You 2.
July 9, 2017
This was really helpful and encouraging. I recommend to any girls 9-13
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