It's Not the Stork!: A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends (The Family Library) From the expert team behind IT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL and IT'S SO AMAZING! comes a book for younger children about their bodies — a resource that parents, teachers, librarians, health care providers, and clergy can use with ease and confidence.Young children are curious about almo

Title	:	It's Not the Stork!: A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends (The Family Library)
Author	:	Robie H. Harris
Rating	:	4.76 (506 Votes)
Asin	:	0763633313
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	64 Pages
Publish Date	:	2008-08-26
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From the expert team behind IT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL and IT'S SO AMAZING! comes a book for younger children about their bodies — a resource that parents, teachers, librarians, health care providers, and clergy can use with ease and confidence.

Young children are curious about almost everything, especially their bodies. And young children are not afraid to ask questions. What makes me a girl? What makes me a boy? Why are some parts of girls' and boys' bodies the same and why are some parts different? How was I made? Where do babies come from? Is it true that a stork brings babies to mommies and daddies?

IT'S NOT THE STORK! helps answer these endless and perfectly normal questions that preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary school children ask about how they began. Through lively, comfortable language and sensitive, engaging artwork, Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley address readers in a reassuring way, mindful of a child's healthy desire for straig

Editorial : From School Library Journal
Starred Review. Kindergarten-Grade 3–Harris opens by introducing two cartoon characters–a green-feathered bird clad in a purple shirt and blue high-top sneakers and his spike-haired friend, a bee. They wonder, So where DO babies come from? Their conversational commentary, given in word balloons, is a lighthearted supplement to a more focused narrative. Told in the second person, the text is straightforward, informative, and personable. Facts are presented step-by-step, starting from the similarities and differences between boys and girls bodies, moving to a babys conception, growth in the womb, and birth, ending with an exploration of different configurations of families as well as a section on okay versus not okay touches. The book is logically organized into 23 double-page sections. Friendly and relaxed cartoons, either interspersed with the text or appearing in comic-strip form, are integral to the titles success in imparting the ma

As someone who works in waves, I have a ton of wave books. But, please note, there is interesting information in the essays, if you can get through the style and tone.

The photographs make the book worth browsing, The captions are informative. One of the most useful aspects of this wonderful book is the detailed outlining of long-unavailable classic papers by Pierson, Tick, Sverdrup, Munk, Neumann, and other early practitioners and developers of random wave theories. It gives a fairly good description of orders, some good pictures, and basic descriptions of forest pests with more focus on the most important ones. There are some small noticeable differences in theory between the two books. And not fully aware of the why , I lost interest in the storyline and skimmed the rest of the book. When I was half way through the book I found myself wanting to slow down, not wanting to reach the end this captivating narrative. And rightly so. Not so Gelernter's "A History of American Ar