Any Body: A Comic Compendium of Important Facts and Feelings About Our Bodies

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

An honest, humorous and factual book for children and early teens who want to understand and feel at home with their own bodies.

Sometimes we feel uncomfortable in our own skin, sometimes invincible. Expert Katharina von der Gathens many years of experience working with children as a sex educator are the basis for this witty encyclopedia covering interesting facts about skin, hair and body functions alongside the questions that may affect us through puberty and beyondgender identity, beauty, consent, self-confidence, how other people reactand relate to us, and how they make us feel.

With accessible and warm text, Any Body gently acknowledges common feelings of ambivalence about our bodies. Through showing body diversity and positivity, it encourages acceptance of self and others. The illustrations are relatably funny and include charts, cartoons and moreeven a handy page of visual compliments.

This compendium is an encouraging starting point for conversations with children navigating puberty and laying the foundations for body acceptance in a straightforward and highly entertaining way.

Translated from the German edition by Shelley Tanaka.

Reviews

"A whimsical, enlightening, and empowering volume to set readers on the path toward self-acceptance and body positivity."

"A wonderfully browsable - and amusing! - book to help a kid understand their body and their feelings about it as they go through puberty."

Author Bio

Katharina von der Gathen was born in 1972. She works in the area of sex education with children and adolescents from a wide range of backgrounds. She lives in Bonn with her husband and four children.

Anke Kuhl, born in 1970, is one of Germanys leading childrens book illustrators, whose awards include the German Youth Literature Award in 2011. She lives in Frankfurt with her husband and two children.