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42 reviews for:
Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!): The Ultimate Puberty Book for Girls
Bianca I. Laureano, Sonya Renee Taylor
4.64 AVERAGE
42 reviews for:
Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!): The Ultimate Puberty Book for Girls
Bianca I. Laureano, Sonya Renee Taylor
4.64 AVERAGE
hopeful
informative
fast-paced
Taylor's Celebrate Your Body is a body-positive guide to puberty. Taylor emphasizes that all bodies are unique, special, and on their own timeline-- be patient and celebrate your body. Beyond the more traditional topics (anatomy, menstruation, timelines, hygiene) Taylor takes time to discuss changing frienships, nutrition, managing your mood, and finding a "trusted adult" with which to have further conversations. While this isn't a gender-neutral book, in the introduction Taylor acknowledges that maybe not everyone reading this book feels like the word "girl" is right for them and provides some trans resources in the back of the book. I do wish there was a little more discussion and normalizing of gender non-conformity.
Last year (in the before times), one of our LS students approached me looking for a puberty book and everything I had to offer her was from the last century. After some research, I bought this and just got around to reading it myself. Overall, I loved it. Great body-positive messages, easy to understand, useful information. There's absolutely no mention of sex in this book. I'm excited to check out the next in the series for older folx. I would recommend this to any of our LS students and maybe a 7th grader if it was all I had, but I think by MS you've probably aged out of this.
Last year (in the before times), one of our LS students approached me looking for a puberty book and everything I had to offer her was from the last century. After some research, I bought this and just got around to reading it myself. Overall, I loved it. Great body-positive messages, easy to understand, useful information. There's absolutely no mention of sex in this book. I'm excited to check out the next in the series for older folx. I would recommend this to any of our LS students and maybe a 7th grader if it was all I had, but I think by MS you've probably aged out of this.
I finished my read-through but am also reading this with my oldest. She is curious and excited and this is bringing up lots of healthy questions and discussions. I loved this! It is inclusive of all bodies and incredibly positive and affirming.
My 10-year-old and I just read this together. It’s an incredibly low-drama review of body and emotional changes as puberty begins. It kicked off several important conversations for us. I just wish I’d had a book like this when I was 10! Highly recommend.
informative
informative
slow-paced
I really love this book. Ms. Taylor did a fantastic job of explaining the issues related to health, hygiene & puberty on a level a kid can understand. I love the fact she tries to empower young girls to take control of their own health.
The density and repetition of positive language in this book, even if it's simplistic (it's written for prepubescent girls), had me going to bed loving my body a little more than I did when I woke up.
Thorough, explicit, wholesome, uplifting. One of the best puberty books in print currently, IMO
Thorough, explicit, wholesome, uplifting. One of the best puberty books in print currently, IMO
Hurray! A great book to leave lying around for kids to pick up and peruse. I especially love Taylor's note that she doesn't use the word "beautiful" much for people and how many better ways there are to describe people.
informative
medium-paced
Wow! I need to get this back in time to 10 year old me! Taylor does a fantastic job of covering the basics of early girlhood in language that both informs and does not talk down to kids. So many books on the topic talk to them like they have no idea about anything that's going on, when in reality, they've been talking about this stuff for ages by the time it happens. She provides a good structure for understanding the changes but also makes very clear that there is no one "normal." I will be buying this for my 12-year-old goddaughter as well as any other girls I can think of.