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The Boy's Body Book (Fifth Edition)

Everything You Need to Know for a Healthy, Happy YOU!
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The Boy's Body Book (Fifth Edition) by Kelli Dunham is a comprehensive guide that helps young boys understand the physical, emotional, and social changes they experience during puberty. It covers topics such as personal hygiene, relationships, and self-esteem in an approachable and easy-to-understand manner. Written with sensitivity, it aims to educate and empower boys as they navigate this critical stage of growing up.
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You might enjoy this if you're looking for a resource that helps boys navigate the changes of growing up with ease and understanding. Packed with age-appropriate information, it covers important topics about bodies, emotions, and growing up, presented in a relatable and friendly way for young readers.

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The #1 bestselling Boy's Body Book includes everything you need to know about growing up, even the embarrassing stuff. The newly updated fifth edition provides advice for parents and addresses questions a pre-teen boy may have while maturing through puberty.

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The #1 bestselling Boy's Body Book includes everything you need to know about growing up, even the embarrassing stuff. The newly updated fifth edition provides advice for parents and addresses questions a pre-teen boy may have while maturing through puberty and becoming a man.

Everything is changing! How will you survive this trying time in your life? This book made just for boys contains all of the guy stuff you need to know about growing up, from your voice changing to peer pressure. The newly updated fifth edition of The Boy's Body Book helps prepare young boys and their parents for the ups and downs of puberty, middle school, and everything in between.

This guide for pre-teen boys addresses issues like changing bodies, personal hygiene, self-confidence, leadership, school safety, and personal boundaries. This updated fifth edition book for boys is expanded to include topics like:

  • School safety and consent
  • Emotional health, mindfulness, and self-esteem
  • Cyberbullying and internet safety
  • Learning disabilities
  • Personal boundaries, communication, and consent
  • Stress management
  • Building healthy friendships
  • and more

The Boy's Body Book helps prepare boys for puberty and beyond by giving them age-appropriate information, tools, tips, and tricks to take care of themselves and grow up in a healthy environment.

Kelli Dunham, RN, BSN, is a nurse, a comedian, and author of three other books: How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Nursing School, How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Your Life as a Nurse, and The Boy's Body Book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up You.

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The Boy's Body Book (Fifth Edition) by Kelli Dunham provides useful guidance for young boys navigating physical and emotional changes during puberty. Reviews praise the book for its accessible language and comprehensive scope, making it an approachable resource for children and parents alike. It covers a wide range of topics, including hygiene, health, and mental well-being, with a focus on fostering confidence and understanding in boys.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781604338324

Publisher: HarperCollins Focus

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 May 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Applesauce Press

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Robert Anastas

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 11.0mm

Width: 177.0mm

Height: 260.0mm

Weight: 385g

Pages: 148

About the Author

Kelli Dunham, RN, BSN, is a nurse, stand-up comic, and author of How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Nursing School, How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Your Life as a Nurse, and The Boy’s Body Book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up You, also published by Applesauce Press. She has worked as a primary care and home visiting nurse with first-time new moms. She has lived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Ohio, Oklahoma, Florida, Portland, Oregon, New York, and on a houseboat in Philadelphia. In her spare time she likes to read, skateboard, and she would really, really like to learn to play the banjo.

Steve has illustrated over 100 picture books for children, as well as doing advertising, editorial and packaging illustration. He works with his brother doing greeting cards for Recycled Paper Greetings. To date, well over one hundred million cards with his art have sold around the world.

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