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It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, Gender, and Sexual Health
128 pp.
| Candlewick |
May, 2021 |
TradeISBN 978-1-5362-0720-0$24.99
|
PaperISBN 978-1-5362-0721-7$14.99 New ed. (1994)
(3)
4-6
Illustrated by
Michael Emberley.
This fifth edition of the classic sex-ed compendium for tweens and young teens updates the 2014 edition, most notably revising the text throughout to use more gender-inclusive language and less binary thinking. Harris lays the groundwork in the first chapter, e.g., providing definitions for sex and gender and acknowledging that for some people the labels assigned at birth "do not describe who they are." Many pages have been redesigned to accommodate added text and reconfigured chapters. The addition of new illustrations better reflects diversity in all its forms. A welcome--and welcoming--edition.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 1995