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Body dissatisfaction skyrockets during puberty, compromising a girl’s physical and emotional health. Now there’s a book that helps girls see body changes as “superpowers,” leading them to a healthy and satisfying life. In this first-of-its-kind book, family nutrition expert Maryann Jacobsen empowers adolescent girls to see their body in a positive light. Utilizing a fun…
An inclusive, body-positive guide to puberty for boys ages 8 to 14 Help your youngster progress from childhood to adulthood with a strong, confident appreciation of himself. This puberty book for boys offers essential guidance for helping your boy get through his adolescent years happily and healthily―so he can focus on all of the good…
A girl, a flamingo, and a worried potato star in the third book in New York Times bestselling author Michael Ian Black and celebrated illustrator Debbie Ridpath Ohi’s series about feelings—and why they’re good, even when they feel bad. Potato is worried. About everything. Because anything might happen. When he tells his friends, he expects…
Packed with joyful and educational art experiences for kids, Play, Make, Create offers fun and engaging imaginative activities focused on the fun and reward of creating, not just producing a final project. Founded in a process-based philosophy, this unique book includes more than 40 activities set up as invitations, or thoughtfully designed prompts to explore,…
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Time Top 10 Book of the Year • A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year The author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a clear-eyed picture of the new sexual landscape girls face in the post-princess stage—high school through college—and reveals how they are negotiating it….
“This powerful program teaches children the skills they need to manage food and weight successfully for the rest of their lives. The smiles and sense of confidence radiating from children who have had these lessons speak for themselves.” — Karin Kratina, PhD, RD, Author. At a time when they should feel secure in their body’s…
Many kids today are more afraid of becoming “fat” than they are of war, cancer, or losing their parents. Body image issues are often the precursor to eating disorders, which have been skyrocketing for young kids. Studies indicate that 80% of 10-year-olds have already caught the “I Feel Fat” Spell. Mirror, Mirror teaches kids (and…
“Alternately playful and realistic, Emberley’s. . . . art reinforces Harris’s message that bodies come in all sizes, shapes, and colors — and that each variation is ‘perfectly normal.’” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) When young people have questions about sex, real answers can be hard to find. Providing accurate, unbiased answers to nearly every imaginable question,…
How to Raise Empowered Girls in a Princess World It’s no secret that little girls love princesses. Behind the twirly dresses and glittery crowns, however, sits a powerful marketing machine, encouraging obsessive consumerism and delivering negative stereotypes about gender, race, and beauty to young girls. So what’s a parent to do? The Princess Problem features real…
Addresses disordered eating for children. This book encourages healthy ways to express feelings and is an early education tool on habits that may lead to obesity of eating disorders. It shows children healthy ways to satisfy their hunger and express their emotions.
Meet Nancy Carlson’s peppy pig—a character who is full of good feelings about herself. Her story will leave little ones feeling good about themselves, too! “Little ones in need of positive reinforcement will find it here. An exuberant pig proclaims “I like me!” She likes the way she looks, and all her activities….When she makes…
*Silver medal winner in the ‘Self-Esteem’ category of the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards 2015* Bodies do all sorts of amazing things, like move around, grow bigger and heal themselves. Bodies also come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and we need to take care of them so that they stay healthy and strong. If…
Fifty-four portraits of women that are striking, beautiful, and real. The bodies in this book have been shaped by the full sweep of the feminine experience. They belong to 54 women from all over the country, ages 19 to 95, of all sizes and shapes, ethnicities, and life experiences, who were willing to expose their…
Be yourself like Molly Lou Melon no matter what a bully may do. Molly Lou Melon is short and clumsy, has buck teeth, and has a voice that sounds like a bullfrog being squeezed by a boa constrictor. She doesn’t mind. Her grandmother has always told her to walk proud, smile big, and sing loud,…
2020 “Rise: A Feminist Book Project Top Ten” winner (ALA) & Winner of the 2019 Eureka! Gold Awards There’s more to being a boy than sports, feats of daring, and keeping a stiff upper lip. A Boy Like You encourages every boy to embrace all the things that make him unique, to be brave and…
“Her body is beautiful—strong, kind and wise. All bodies are lovely no matter their size.” Her Body Can is a book of poetic self-love and body positivity declarations for all young girls. Its aim is to encourage our young girls to create a reality for themselves in which they love themselves and their bodies for…
Abigail dreads swimming lessons. Every time she dives into the pool, she makes a big splash, and all the girls in her class shout: “Abigail’s a whale!” Abigail can see that she is larger than the other girls. She feels huge, heavy, and out of place. Abigail’s swimming teacher takes her aside and points out:…
This carefully crafted coloring book was designed to cultivate imagination, inspire, build confidence and foster a positive-self image. This revolutionary book teaches girls to love the skin they’re in. I Love ME! Colorful and Creative. A girl can be a leader, quirky, brainy, brilliant, sporty, inventive, entrepreneurial, musical, artsy, princess-like, or all of the above….
An intersectional, feminist YA anthology from some of today’s most exciting voices across a span of genres, all celebrating body diversity and fat acceptance through short stories. Fat girls and boys and nonbinary teens are: friends who lift each other up, heroes who rescue themselves, big bodies in space, intellects taking up space, and bodies…
You are inherently creative. Yes, you. Even if you’ve never picked up a paintbrush before, registered art therapist Ashlee Bennett will teach you how to reclaim your creativity and make amends with your body using art. In our image-obsessed society, it’s easy to be bogged down by the negative messaging that you’re not enough, that…
On the heels of the breakaway success of The Body Is Not an Apology comes an action guide to help readers practice the art of radical self-love both for themselves and to transform our society. Readers of The Body Is Not an Apology have been clamoring for guidance on how to do the work of…
Marshmallow is a fat unicorn. Are unicorns supposed to be fat? She makes healthy changes in her life but can she learn to love herself as she is? A parable for children ages 6 to 9 about fat positivity, embracing and accepting yourself in a fatphobic world, and celebrating diversity.
Catherine Hernandez’s debut novel Scarborough was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award, the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and the Trillium Prize, Ontario’s richest literary award. Her latest, I Promise, is a beautiful tribute to the resiliency of diverse families. Featuring tender-hearted illustrations by renowned artist Syrus Marcus Ware, I Promise captures with love…
An empowering celebration of identity, acceptance and Hawaiian culture based on the true story of a young girl in HawaiĘ»i who dreams of leading the boys-only hula troupe at her school. Ho’onani feels in-between. She doesn’t see herself as wahine (girl) OR kane (boy). She’s happy to be in the middle. But not everyone sees…
From Newbery Honor- and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author RenĂ©e Watson comes a heartwarming and inspiring novel for middle schoolers about finding deep roots and exploring the past, the present, and the places that make us who we are. All Amara wants for her birthday is to visit her father’s…
