With honesty, accuracy, humor, and warmth, IT'S SO AMAZING offers children the real information they need-now more than ever.
How does a baby begin? What makes a baby female or male? Why are some babies twins? How is a baby adopted? Children sure have lots of questions about reproduction and babies-and about sex and sexuality too.
IT'S SO AMAZING! provides the fascinating answers-with fun, accurate, comic-book style artwork, and a clear, lively text that reflects an elementary-school child's interest in science and how things work. Throughout the book, a curious Bird and a squeamish Bee help tell the AMAZING story of how a baby is made-from the moment an egg and sperm join, through pregnancy, to birth. IT'S SO AMAZING! also addresses, in a reassuring and age-appropriate way, related topics such as love, sex, gender, families, heterosexuality, homosexuality, sexual abuse, and HIV and AIDS-while giving children a healthy understanding of their bodies.
Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley, author and illustrator of IT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL: CHANGING BODIES, GROWING UP, SEX AND SEXUAL HEALTH, created IT'S SO AMAZING! in response to requests from parents, educators, librarians, and health professionals for a book that would address a younger child's concerns. Vetted and approved by science, health, and child development experts, this comprehensive, forthright, and funny book is just what children need-to provide answers to their questions and to keep them safe, healthy, and unafraid.
With honesty, accuracy, humor, and warmth, IT'S SO AMAZING offers children the real information they need-now more than ever.
How does a baby begin? What makes a baby female or male? Why are some babies twins? How is a baby adopted? Children sure have lots of questions about reproduction and babies-and about sex and sexuality too.
IT'S SO AMAZING! provides the fascinating answers-with fun, accurate, comic-book style artwork, and a clear, lively text that reflects an elementary-school child's interest in science and how things work. Throughout the book, a curious Bird and a squeamish Bee help tell the AMAZING story of how a baby is made-from the moment an egg and sperm join, through pregnancy, to birth. IT'S SO AMAZING! also addresses, in a reassuring and age-appropriate way, related topics such as love, sex, gender, families, heterosexuality, homosexuality, sexual abuse, and HIV and AIDS-while giving children a healthy understanding of their bodies.
Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley, author and illustrator of IT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL: CHANGING BODIES, GROWING UP, SEX AND SEXUAL HEALTH, created IT'S SO AMAZING! in response to requests from parents, educators, librarians, and health professionals for a book that would address a younger child's concerns. Vetted and approved by science, health, and child development experts, this comprehensive, forthright, and funny book is just what children need-to provide answers to their questions and to keep them safe, healthy, and unafraid.
Robie H. Harris (1940-2024) is the New York Times
best-selling author of the acclaimed Family Library series—It’s
Perfectly Normal, It’s So Amazing!, and It’s Not the
Stork!—illustrated by Michael Emberley; CRASH! BOOM! A Math Tale,
illustrated by Chris Chatterton; and Somewhere, illustrated by
Armando Mariño. She is also the author of the Let’s Talk About You
and Me series, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott, and many
other books for young children.
Michael Emberley says that while creating the illustrations
for IT'S SO AMAZING!, he "tried to delicately balance
age-appropriateness, absolute accuracy, honesty, and just plain
fun."
"IT'S SO AMAZING! is the amazingly upbear and caring book that
children have been waiting for — because it answers the many
quetions most children have about babies, bodies, love, sex,
reproduction, and family. This book is totally child-friendly and
the perfect read-aloud book for children and families. Try if for
the best-ever depiction of the real meaning of family." — Penelope
Leach, Ph.D., author of YOUR BABY AND CHILD and CHILDREN FIRST
"This thoughtufl, innovative, and comprehensive book helps children
with issues that are on their minds anyway — and gives all of us
the language we need to share with them." — T. Berry Brazelton,
M.D., author of TOUCHPOINTS: YOUR CHILD'S EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL
DEVELOPMENT
As a pediatrician, I know that children have many questions about
reproduction, birth, bodies, babies, and families. Finding the
answers, in a comfortable, appropriate, and interesting way, is an
essential part of growing up healthy in body and mind. This book
provides an opportunity for children to find answers to their
quetions with clarity of explanation, fabulous illustrations, and
humor, together with an all-important sense of wonder." — Perri
Klass, M.D., Medical Director of Reach Out and Read, Boston, MA
"An excellent resource on sex education for young children,
presented in a lively and engaging style for both kids and parents.
A book every family should own." — Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D.,
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; co-author
of RAISING BLACK CHILDREN: TWO LEADING PSYCHIATRISTS CONFRONT THE
EDUATIONAL, SOCIAL, AND EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS FACING BLACK CHILDREN
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