Whats Happening to Me?

By: Susan Meredith

Illustrated by Nancy Leschnikoff

Series : What and Why

Age 9+

RRP £7.99

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A sensitive and informative guide to puberty for girls - tackling everything from body changes to mood swings, hormones and first periods.
Bright, cartoon-style illustrations and scientific diagrams explain the physical and emotional changes of growing up in a simple and reassuring way, while the contents and index pages make key topics easy to find.

Chapters in this book include:
- Growing up
- When will it happen?
- Taller and wider
- Getting hairy
- Getting breasts
- The bra business
- How does it start?
- What's it all about?
- The changes inside you ...
- ... and on the outside
- Why periods happen
- Using towels
- Using tampons
- Coping with periods
- Your feelings
- Good food
- More about eating
- Keep moving
- Keep clean
- From the neck up
- How boys' bodies work
- Boys have worries too
- Problems to avoid

Details

Extent:: 48 pages
Dimensions:: 212.5 x 152.1mm
Paperback ISBN:: 9780746069950
Key Stage:: KS1, KS2, KS3
Publication Date:: March 2006
Work Reference:: 01938

Contents

Chapters in this book include:
- Growing up
- When will it happen?
- Taller and wider
- Getting hairy
- Getting breasts
- The bra business
- How does it start?
- What's it all about?
- The changes inside you ...
- ... and on the outside
- Why periods happen
- Using towels
- Using tampons
- Coping with periods
- Your feelings
- Good food
- More about eating
- Keep moving
- Keep clean
- From the neck up
- How boys' bodies work
- Boys have worries too
- Problems to avoid

Author

Susan Meredith grew up in Yorkshire, and when she wasn't playing out or dancing, she was busy reading or making little books of her own, mainly about ballet. She's now written more than 20 real books for Usborne, on subjects ranging from saving the planet to playing football, from world religions to the human body. Her book Growing Up won the Times Educational Supplement's senior information book of the year award but her own personal favourite has to be Hamsters.

Find out more about Susan Meredith

Series

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Press

Look no further: the What's Happening to Me? Books are nothing short of brilliant. They aim to help children aged nine and above understand bodily changes and they do this extremely well.
Susan Meredith answers the questions young girls want to ask but might feel afraid to. It's all there: getting measured up for a bra, periods, using towels and tampons, feeling, diet, health and hygiene and there is also a section on what happens to boys.
The text is informal, chatty, full of useful facts and packed with considerate advice and support. A book like that wouldn't work as well without graphics and diagrams, and the illustrations are colourful and engaging as well as informative.

Times Educational Supplement

Look no further: the What's Happening to Me? books are nothing short of brilliant.

Times Educational Supplement