The Care and Keeping of You 2: The Body Book for Older Girls

by Dr. Cara Natterson, Josee Masse (Illustrator)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

For girls 10 and up, this book is the follow-up to the immensely helpful Care & Keeping of You. Volume 2 will provide even more care and advice to young girls coming of age and is the perfect complement to the first.

This thoughtful advice book will guide you through the next steps of growing up. With illustrations and expert contributors, this book covers new questions about periods, your growing body, peer pressure, personal care, and more! Written by Dr. Cara Natterson for girls 10 and up, The Care & Keeping of You 2 follows up the original bestseller with even more in-depth details about the physical and emotional changes you're going through.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781609580421
Publisher:	American Girl Publishing
Publication date:	02/26/2013
Series:	American Girl® Wellbeing
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	1000L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Dr. Cara Natterson is a leading voice in puberty and adolescent health. A pediatrician, speaker, and the co-host of the This Is So Awkward podcast, she is the author of ten books including the bestselling This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained and the New York Times bestselling "The Care and Keeping of You" series.

When her own kids started puberty, Cara founded Less Awkward, the first company aimed at making puberty less cringey and more comfortable with both product and content. These days, puberty starts between 8-10 for most kids and it lasts a decade. The kids going through it and the adults helping them all deserve less cringe and more joy, which is why everything Cara does delivers crucial information in a relatable, reliable way.

Cara graduated from Harvard college and Johns Hopkins Medical School, trained at UCSF. She has two college aged kids and lives in Los Angeles.

Editorial Reviews

A straightforward explanation of growth and changes in puberty aimed at girls approaching their teens. A pediatrician who also serves as an online expert for several parenting sites offers sensible descriptions of and answers to common questions about body basics, physical, emotional and mental changes, and relationships with family and friends in this latest self-help title from the American Girl group. The target audience for this follow-up to The Care & Keeping of You (1998) is clearly the upper end of the company's publishing focus (ages 8-12), but the information provided about puberty is generally similar to that in the previous title, which covered girls' good health more broadly. There are clear instructions for breast self-examination and for inserting a tampon. (Shaving one's legs and determining bra size return from the earlier book.) The text does not include sexual feelings among its set of physical and emotional changes. In the diagram of the vagina, the clitoris is shown but not labeled. Parents will be particularly pleased by the author's repeated reminder that parental rules rule. Preteen readers will appreciate the positive, personal tone. Sure to be welcomed, and especially useful for families and collections where the more explicit It's So Amazing, by Robie Harris and illustrated by Michael Emberley (1999) would be unacceptable. (Nonfiction. 9-12)

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