How does a baby begin? What makes a baby male or female? How is a baby born? Children have plenty of questions about reproduction and babies — and about sex and sexuality, too. It’s So Amazing! provides the answers — with fun, accurate, comic-book-style artwork and a clear, lively text that reflects the interests of children age seven and up in how things work, while giving them a healthy understanding of their bodies. Created by the author and illustrator of It’s Perfectly Normal, this forthright and funny book has been newly updated for its fifteenth anniversary.
Ages 7 to 10
Contents
Meet The Bird And The Bee
Do You Know What I Read?
1 Curious? Embarrassed? Confused?
So How Do Babies Really Begin?
2 Egg + Sperm = Baby
Reproduction
3 Same And Different
Male – Female
4 Growing Up
Babies, Kids, Tennages, Grown-Ups
5 What’s Inside? What’s Outside
Female Parts
6 What’s Inside? What’s Outside
Male Parts
7 The Amazing Egg Trip
What Do Eggs Do?
8 The Amazing Sperm Trip
What Do Sperm Do?
9 What’s Sex?
Female or Male-Loving-Making Love-Making a Baby
10 What’s Love
Lots of Kinds of Love
11 The Big Race!
Sperm and Egg Meet
12 A Warm and Cozy Womb
Pregnancy
13 Fresh Food! Fresh Air!
Growing and Staying Healthy
14 Stretch! Punch! Kick! Hiccup! Burp!
The Growing Fetus
15 Twins and More!
Twins, Triplets, Quadruplets, Quintuplets
16 Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!
Birth
17 What Makes You-You!
Chromosomes and Genes- And Other Things, Too!
18 Becoming A Family
By Birth – By Adoption
19 Keeping Safe
“Okay Touches” – “Not Okay Touches”
20 Talking About It
HIV and AIDS
21 Gurgles And Drools
Feelings about Babies – Fun with Babies
22 Let’s Celebrate!
Happy Birth Day! Happy Adoption Day!
It’s So Amazing!
Still Talking!
Thank You So Much!
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