Description
Book SynopsisAn honest, humorous and factual book for children and early teens who want to understand and feel at home with their own bodies.
Sometimes we feel uncomfortable in our own skin, sometimes invincible. Expert Katharina von der Gathen’s many years of experience working with children as a sex educator are the basis for this witty encyclopedia covering interesting facts about skin, hair and body functions alongside the questions that may affect us through puberty and beyond—gender identity, beauty, consent, self-confidence, how other people react and relate to us, and how they make us feel.
With accessible and warm text, Any Body gently acknowledges common feelings of ambivalence about our bodies. Through showing body diversity and positivity, it encourages acceptance of self and others. The illustrations are relatably funny and include charts, cartoons and more—even a handy page of visual compliments.
This compendium is an encouraging starting point for conversations with children navigating puberty and laying the foundations for body acceptance in a straightforward and highly entertaining way.
Translated from the German edition by Shelley Tanaka.
Trade Review"A whimsical, enlightening, and empowering volume to set readers on the path toward self-acceptance and body positivity."
-- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"A wonderfully browsable - and amusing! - book to help a kid understand their body and their feelings about it as they go through puberty."
-- Youth Services Book Review, USA
"This factual guide in an eye-catching package will appeal to curious browsers."
-- Booklist, US
"both a comic and comical. The pictures do a very important job in enticing even the most reluctant reader to this subject."
-- Little Unity, New Zealand
Table of ContentsHello!
One of a kind
Bodies from the outside
- Hair
- Skin
- Getting naked
- Body fluids
- Breasts
- Vulva and vagina
- Intersex
- Penis
- Body size
Body difficulties
- Pain
- Physical illness
- Mental illness
- Disability
Bodies from the inside
- Body and soul
- Beauty ideals
- Feeling attractive (or not)
- Gender
- Trans
- Girls and boys
- Self-confidence
- Self-doubt
- Not normal
- Embarrassment
Changing bodies (and minds)
- Changes
- Puberty
- Desire
- Changing feelings
- Being in love
- Getting old
How we change our bodies
- All kinds of hair
- Body decoration
- Makeup
- Cosmetic surgery
- Beauty yesterday, today and tomorrow
Other people and your body
- First impressions
- Compliments
- Body language
- Touch
- Peer pressure
- No!
- Choosing for yourself
Poster pages
- All naked
- Body quirks
- Changes
- Family reunion
- Body idioms
- Beauty then and now
- Compliments
At home
