Let's Talk About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends
Age 4+
Personal & Social Issues: Sex Education & The Facts Of Life
The latest in the acclaimed Let's Talk series, designed to answer young children's questions about growing up.
Young children ask so many questions about their bodies and how they were made. With lively language, engaging art and clear, accurate information, this book answers those perfectly normal questions and will help even pre-school children feel proud and comfortable about their own bodies. An invaluable resource for parents, teachers, librarians and health professionals to use with children.
Creators
Robie H. Harris, an award-winning author of children's books, has been honoured with the Outstanding Educator Award from the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association. She lives in America.
Michael Emberley, an author and illustrator, is best known for his collaborations with author Robie H. Harris, including Happy Birth Day! and Hi New Baby! He lives in California, USA
Reviews
Straightforward, informative, and personable…This book will be accessible to its intended audience, comforting in its clarity and directness, and useful to a wide range of readers.
School Library Journal (starred review)
Harris’ respectful writing targets children’s natural curiosity without cloaking matters in obfuscating language.
Booklist (starred review)
In their previous landmark volumes . . . Harris and Emberley established themselves as the purveyors of reader-friendly, straightforward information on human sexuality for readers as young as seven. Here they successfully tackle the big questions . . . for even younger kids.
The Horn Book (starred review)
An excellent introduction to babies’ origins for youngest curious minds.
Publishers Weekly (featured in Children’s Notes: True Companions)
Emberley’s cartoon cast, a celebration of demographic diversity, do double duty as helpful diagrams of body parts and fetal development, and as examples of loving families in action.
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
A happy addition to the Harris-Emberley family.
Kirkus Reviews
Many parents will like this book’s direct approach.
Wall Street Journal
This informative book covers everything from why boys and girls have different body parts to how a baby is born.
Parents
The book is written in clear, straightforward language and accompanied by cartoon illustrations.
Columbus Dispatch (included in a list of the top children’s books of the year)
Adults will gratefully draw on the book’s frank language and friendly tone when talking things over with their kids in the car or at the zoo… This must-have family resource addresses all kinds of such funny misconceptions, supplying instead the real facts of life.
San Francisco Chronicle
Tackles the sensitive subject of human reproduction with delicacy and honesty.
Baltimore’s Child
We recommend these books for parents, teachers, librarians, health professionals and clergy as trusted and accessible resources to get answers and information about how to talk to youth about sexuality.
The Parent Buzz
There’s a direct correlation between fear of naming body parts and kids’ interest in finding out about them…The lucky ones discover the Robie Harris/Michael Emberley books…
Newbery winner Susan Patron, quoted in PW Children's Bookshelf
Well-laced with humorous illustrations and diagrams that convey information as well as maintain the cheerful, even exuberant, ‘it’s perfectly natural’ tone of this book.
Toronto Globe & Mail
Pure sterling. . . . No family with young children (or naïve young adults?) should miss this one.
Sacramento Bee
A perfect starting point for sex education.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Simple language and colorful illustrations present straightforward and easily understood topics that are sometimes controversial.
Library Media Connection
Mentioned as a starting point for a discussion about adoption.
Philly.com
A highly useful tool to both the child and the parent, providing the facts, plain and simple, about the human body and its functions.
Book Bits Kids
Listed under Resources available for parents.
Cincinnati Enquirer
Featured/recommended
Journal Inquirer
Multicultural family friendly resource
New York Amsterdam News
Conversational Q&As…no-nonsense text.
Wondertime magazine
Featured/recommended
The Mommy Files blog, (SFGate.com)
It is hard to imagine a clearer or friendlier sex-ed guide for pubescent and pre-pubescent children.
Curled Up With A Good Kids Book blog
Applauded by many for providing frank and honest information about sex.
Suite101.com
