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96 pp.
| Usborne
| January, 1998
|
TradeISBN 0-88110-974-6
(4)
4-6
The page layout is busy, almost overwhelming, in this British import that contains two sections ("Growing Up" and "Babies") and is packed with (mostly Americanized) information and reassurance about adolescence, pregnancy, birth, and early child development. Cartoon illustrations and very specific diagrams are included, but details in a few are lost in the gutter. "Growing Up" contains a glossary. Ind.