WALKER BOOKS Let's Talk About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends

This is in my opinion way too graphic. The book appears to be aimed at quite young children yet describes far more than I was hoping. I am by no means a prude but this was not the level I was looking for for explaining the basics to my 8 year old daughter. She does not need to know this much detail at this stage. Quite disappointed as I bought this after reading all the positive reviews and spent quite a long time researching. Please be careful if you do not want too much detail.

I love this book. I bought Amazing You (a bit more basic and vague on the details but still good) several months ago and my son really enjoyed that but recently started asking further questions about *precisely* how the mechanics work and why the sexes are different. I have to admit that I thought I might have a couple more years before having to explain in more detail (he's only 4) but I very much believe that you need to give a child honest answers to these questions otherwise I think they worry and pick up incorrect and potentially scary information from elsewhere. This book gives all the details in a fun, approachable and yet sensible way with good illustrations. One thing I love about this over other books is that it actually shows the outside of a girl's genitals so that my son could see what was going on there (one of the questions that he was asking a lot). Other books seem to show the outside and inside of boys but only the inside parts of girls, which I think is a bit confusing. I like that there are different chapters, so you can either read through the whole thing together, pick particular topics that your child is asking about, or skip parts that you don't think they're quite ready for. There are lots of funny bits on the book too - there are two little characters who make comments and the part where it explains what babies do in their Mummy's tummies (kick, hit, burp) had my son in hysterics. I would certainly recommend this book to all parents, I think it's informative and makes a tricky subject very approachable.

My 8yo started asking where the baby in my tummy came from...insistently. My “well when a mummy and a daddy love each other very much...” explanation just wasn't cutting the mustard so I ordered this book to do the job for me. It’s well written for a child of her age and doesn’t explain anything graphic. In fact it does a good job of explaining all of the key elements (mums egg, dads sperm etc) and gives them so much information that they understand the concept but don’t ask about the real nuts and bolts of it (pardon the pun). Would highly recommend if you find yourself as stumped as I was at explaining the gift of life.

Was concerned about questions coming up when my 10 year old was about to learn about the birds and the bees at school - didn’t want to either go into too much information unnecessarily or not enough. This book is excellent - the content is delivered in a factual way without being either overly scientific or childish. Picture are also helpful without being graphic. Very useful book and and as very good for using as a discussion starter.

I used this book with my 8 year old as she was attempting to get her information about sex from other sources. This book used appropriate explanations at the right level for her. Not only did the book cover how babies were made, it also covered the difference between good touching and bad touching, the different types of families there are, as well as, dealing with friendships. I have recommended this book to my friends. Good luck!