The "What's Happening to My Body" Book for Boys, Revised Third Edition (What's Happening to My Body?) (Paperback)

by Lynda Madaras (Author), Area Madaras (Author)
Key Phrases: men with big penises, outer foreskin, inner foreskin, Resource Section (more...)

Editorial Reviews

Review
Lynda Madaras takes seriously the questions asked over the years in her sex education class and gives accurate, detailed answers. -- School Library Journal

These gender-specific titles take a modern and easygoing approach to puberty....explains everything in a readable and reassuring style. -- VOYA: Voice of Youth Advocates

Product Description
The bestselling guides for preteens and teens updated with a brand-new look.

The Madaras growing-up guides are acknowledged by parents, educators, librarians, and doctors for their unique, nonthreatening style, excellent organization, and thorough coverage of both the physical and emotional issues surrounding puberty and adolescence. And kids love them too! As one fan wrote, "Dear Lynda, I can't believe that you, a mom, knew all this stuff!"

"What's Happening to My Body?" for Boys features detailed coverage, in age-appropriate language, of the body's changing size and shape, the growth spurt, the reproductive organs, voice changes, romantic and sexual feelings, puberty in the opposite sex, and much more. Includes a comprehensive resource section and line drawings. For ages 10 and up.

The new editions feature:
• Fresh new cover design for series
• Entirely redesigned interiors with new illustrations
• Uniform trim sizes for display
• New author introductions
• Updated resource sections and content
• 48 black-and-white drawings

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Newmarket; 3 edition (June 25, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557047650
• ISBN-13: 978-1557047656
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #31,029 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Solid Book for a Parent and Adolescent to go Through Together, March 31, 2008

By	Mark Merrick (Costa Mesa, CA) - See all my reviews

Previous reviews have knocked this book for presenting anatomical drawings, medical descriptions, and even slang - assumably for teaching too much. While I understand the fear a parent feels, I believe the presentation is appropriate. Further it seems important that an adolescent know these terms. They will be used by teachers and schoolmates increasingly from Junior High forward. An adolescent who does not know them will be left to their own imagination. An adolescent who has been taught the terms with the help of caring parent will feel safe. Further by going through the book together a parent can teach the child what terms are appropriate and that sexuality is something to be respected, not feared. (Parents, please don't make sexuality a frightening taboo - it will just drive your child to experience it inappropriately.)

As another review points out this book is somewhat academically written. I believe this is because the book is designed for a parent and adolescent to go through together. I would suggest presenting parts of this book beginning as early as 10 but no later than 13 - as the parent feels the child is ready for the information. There is a companion workbook that is written more in an adolescent's language - for them to read alone.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars What's Happening to My Body - book for boys, September 3, 2007

By	Judith R. White - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The purpose of the book for me was to read it to a 10 year old boy, to help him understand what was happening to his body and to explain sex and sexual feelings. It is written by someone who taught the subject and rather than have it as a readable book, it's more instructional and explains the author's way of teaching the subject part of the time and then it seems to become more of a book you'd read to a child entering puberty. Some areas are good and detailed and some things are written in a corny way. I would rate the book on a scale of 1 to 10 as maybe a 3. What I've had to do is read a chapter first, and then scan it as I'm explaining it to my 10 year old boy. It does cover the territory.

32 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars way too much information - inappropriate, October 20, 2007

By	just me (Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

I thought this was a book I could share with my 10 year old son as a reference guide to learn about what changes he can expect and about how babies are made.
I was wrong! There's no way a preteen, or teenager for that matter, boy needs to know all the information detailed in this book! It's over the top with unnecessary, if not, inappropriate graphic drawings of labeled external male & female body parts. (I'm not a prude, but why would a 5th grade boy need to see drawings of the different types of female hymens??? -- ridiculous!)
It also has lists of all the slang, crude nicknames for male and female body parts. I wasn't planning on teaching him the "p" word and the "c" word -- this book does.
It does cover things like acne, body hair, perspiration, spontaneous erections -- that's great stuff boys should know about.
How to measure your masculine parts (complete with diagrams) -- why is that necessary??
I was hoping to gently ease into the discussions I need to have with my son. The unnecessary information is so in-your-face blunt that I'd have to edit out about 75% before I'd let a child or teenager read it.