My Body's Changing: A Boy's Guide to Growing Up : My Body's Changing: A Boy's Guide to Growing Up

My Body's Changing: A Boy's Guide to Growing Up : My Body's Changing: A Boy's Guide to Growing Up
ISBN: 9781445169729
Publication Date: 31 March 2020

A simple and reassuring introduction to body changes for boys aged 7 and up.

This easy-to-understand, straightforward book gives clear advice for young readers who want to understand more about how the body changes during puberty. The clear, friendly approach explains what puberty is and what changes might happen such as getting hairier, growing taller and what wet dreams are.

It includes sensible advice about healthy eating, exercise and keeping clean as well as how to tackle any emotional ups and downs and tips for boosting self-esteem.

Questions and answers throughout will help dispel any myths and give gentle advice.

The book focuses purely on the changes happening to a boy's body during puberty with no mention of sex, which some younger children aren't ready to learn about.

About the Author

Anita Ganeri is an award-winning author of children's information books. She has been a writer for 20 years, after working in-house for Usborne Publishing and Walker Books. She specialises in the natural world, religion and mythology but is always looking for new challenges. Among her many titles are the best-selling 'Horrible Geography' series for Scholastic Children's Books which won the Blue Peter Book Award for the Best Book with Facts in 2009 and the Tivy Education Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for an outstanding contribution to geographical education. Anita lives in northern England with her husband, children, dogs and cat. She enjoys reading, walking the Moors, playing tennis and dreaming of winning Wimbledon.