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It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health
99 pp.
| Candlewick |
September, 2014 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-6871-6$22.99
|
PaperISBN 978-0-7636-6872-3$12.99 New ed. (1994)
(2)
4-6
Illustrated by
Michael Emberley.
The original Horn Book review described this invaluable resource as an "unassuming, coherent, comprehensive explanation of sex in all its complicated glory." The frank and nonjudgmental discussion is illustrated with anatomically correct cartoon drawings. This twentieth-anniversary edition includes a broader definition of gender; expanded information about using the internet; and updated information about contraception, abortion, sexual abuse, and STDs, including HIV/AIDS. Ind.
Reviewer: Cynthia K. Ritter
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 1995;
November, 2014