Changing You!: A Guide to Body Changes and Sexuality

by Gail Saltz

Book Overview

An honest and reassuring guide to puberty for elementary school children Puberty can be an exciting-and confusing-time for children. In the follow-up to her bestselling Amazing You!, Dr. Gail Saltz... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0142414794
• ISBN13: 9780142414798
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.6" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 6 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 3

Customer Reviews

Changing You: A Guide to Body Changes and Sexuality

Great way to help break the ice when it came to talking to my child about sex, would highly recomend it

Excellent Choice

I researched a lot of books about this subject to use as a resource when the time was right to have a discussion with my 9 year-old daughter. This was an excellent book and was exactly the tool I needed to have a discussion about sexuality with my child. I love that the book sends the message that sex happens after "a man and woman fall in love and get married." I think the messages and the illustrations are perfect and I would recommend this book to anyone who knows this looming discussion is on the horizon.

Love it!

After reading several of the choices... I loved this one. It is very factual and more scientific in nature. It did not have opinions interjected as other books do. It is my job to give the opinions and cultural practices and I appreciated the plain facts in this one. Cute pictures too!

Could have been laid out better

I bought this book for my 9 1/2 year old daughter. I was very surprised to discover that the note for parents page is the 1st page of the book, and the reverse of that page is the first page you would want your child to see. The publishers should have printed the note for parents on a page by itself, preferably perforated, so it could easily be removed from the book if a parent so chose. I thought about trying to black it out with marker, but I'm afraid it will bleed through the page, and ruin what should actually be the 1st page of the story. As of now, I am undecided about giving her the book. It would also have been better if they had included the pronunciation of the terms for body parts, etc. The words and drawings are detailed and specific. Be aware that in additon to separate drawings of the inside and outside of the reproductive organs of male and female, there is also a drawing of the outside and inside view of intercourse. My daughter's fourth grade science book uses similar drawings and the terms sex, sexual reproduction, ovaries, egg, fertilization by the male, etc., in lessons on flower pollination and reproduction. So, I feel that this book would be a comfortable way for her to get answers to her questions about how this all works in humans, how children get certain characteristics from both mother and father, what tampons are for, etc. I strongly agree with the author that you should follow up with an offer to answer any questions they have and a discussion about your values and beliefs regarding sex, marriage,