Amazing You!: Getting Smart About Your Private Parts: A First Guide to Body Awareness for Pre-Schoolers...

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Dr. Gail Saltz Lynne Avril Cravath

Amazing You!

Getting Smart About Your Private Parts: A First Guide to Body Awareness for Pre-Schoolers

Dr. Gail Saltz, Lynne Avril Cravath

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Dutton Books for Young Readers
05 May 2005

Science & technology: general interest (Children's&YA); Educational: Biology

""Mom, where do babies come from?""Many parents live in fear of the day their child asks that question-which inevitably happens, often as early as the preschool years. Here is a picture book designed especially for young children who are becoming sexually aware but aren't ready to learn about sexual intercourse. Written with warmth and honesty, Amazing You! presents clear and age-appropriate information about reproduction, birth, and the difference between girls' and boys' bodies. Lynne Cravath's whimsical illustrations enliven the text, making this a book that parents will gladly share with their young ones.

By: Dr. Gail Saltz
Illustrated by: Lynne Avril Cravath
Imprint: Dutton Books for Young Readers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 289mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 404g
ISBN: 9780525473893
ISBN 10: 0525473890
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 05 May 2005
Recommended Age: From 3 to 7 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Gail Saltz lives in New York City. Lynne Cravath lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Reviews for Amazing You!: Getting Smart About Your Private Parts: A First Guide to Body Awareness for Pre-Schoolers

Brightened by sunny, simply drawn cartoons featuring people of several ages and skin shades, this introduction to the reproductive organs is designed as much to allay parental anxiety as to provide answers to younger children's questions. Saltz, a practicing psychiatrist, describes the male and female set-ups in a light, relaxed tone, suggesting that it's better to use specific terms rather than euphemisms for visible organs, and tracking physical changes from infancy to adulthood. She steers clear of topics deemed beyond her child audience's understanding, such as sexual intercourse, or stages of fetal development, and backs up vague allusions to masturbation and privacy boundaries with a closing note in much smaller type. Though urethras are repeatedly mentioned but never illustrated, there are no lists of further information sources, and a description of sperm as looking sort of like tadpoles may leave some misapprehensions about their size, this makes an adequate discussion starter for parents with children not yet up to the level of detail in Robie H. Harris's It's So Amazing! (1999). (Picture book/nonfiction. 5-7) (Kirkus Reviews)