Amazing You! Getting Smart About Your Private Parts. Gail Saltz & Lynne Avril Cravath, $8.50 (preschool age)

Amazing You presents clear, age-appropriate information about reproduction, birth and the differences between boys’ and girls’ bodies. The book promotes a healthy attitude about body image, while teaching children to respect themselves and others.

The Body Book for Boys. Jonathan Mar & Grace Norwich, $11.99

Everything you need to know about growing up.

Changing You: a Guide to Body Changes and Sexuality. Gail Saltz & Lynne Avril Cravath, $8.50

Puberty can be an exciting—and confusing—time for children. Dr. Gail Saltz navigates curious youngsters through body changes for boys and girls, reproduction, and emerging sexuality with warmth and candor. Lynne Cravath’s lively illustrations provide just enough detail while underscoring the direct and honest tone of the text. This refreshingly accessible picture book also includes an author’s note to parents.

Cycle Savvy: the Smart Teen's Guide to the Mysteries of Her Body. Toni Weschler, $18.95

Cycle Savvy is the first book specifically designed to teach young women about the practical benefits of charting their cycles. Explore the fascinating world of ovulation, fertility, and why you even have periods at all! And learn all about the body signals, mood changes, and other signs that accompany your cycle. Cycle Savvy takes the mystery out of your amazing body.

Doing It Right: Making Smart, Safe and Satisfying Choices about Sex. Bronwen Pardes, $17.99

The more you know, the easier it is to make safe — and smart — decisions about sex.

Erin’s Period Book. Barb Zimmerman, $18.95

Erin’s Period Book uses factual language, photos and illustrations to explain menstruation. A simple tool for teaching girls with developmental delays how to take care of their menstrual needs at home, school or out in the community.

From Diapers to Dating: a Parent’s Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children from Infancy to Middle School. Debra Haffner, $19.95

A wealth of practical ideas to help you communicate your own values about sexuality to your children.

Filled with invaluable information and advice to get a young girl ready for the changes she will experience during puberty, Girl’s Guide to Becoming a Teen explains the health issues that are most concern to teenage girls and how to be safe, happy and healthy through these years.

Gotcha Covered! Everything You Need to Know about Your Period. Lisa McGuinness & Chris Boral, $16.95

Handy tips, good advice, a calendar for charting and a case for supplies — everything a young girl needs when she gets her period.

Great Answers to Difficult Questions about Sex: What Children Need to Know. Linda Goldman, $18.95

Sex is never an easy subject for discussion and adults often struggle to find the right words when talking about it with children. This book explores children's thoughts and feelings on the subject of sex and provides parents and other caring adults with guidance on how to respond to difficult questions. The author explores some of the most common questions children ask about sex and provides sensitive yet candid answers, phrased in a way that children will be able to understand and relate to.

Growing Into a Young Lady. Barb Zimmerman, $12.50

Using simple language, photos and illustrations this book shows girls with developmental delays what to expect and how to take care of their changing bodies.

Real answers to preteen problems:

• Body changes — who's normal — you or them?
• Stress-busting — school, family crisis, siblings, friends and more
• Is it a crush or is it love — and when those feelings spell trouble
• Dealing with depression, loss, grief
• Secrets that everyone seems to know but you — shaving, buying a bra, looking good
• What to say — to parents, teachers, your doctor, that special someone

It's So Amazing: a Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families. Robie Harris, illustrated by Michael Emberley, $15.00 (ages 7 and up)

This delightful series answers nearly every question children and young teens may have about birth, babies, bodies, families and healthy sexuality. With lively, comfortable language and sensitive, engaging artwork, Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley address readers in a reassuring way, respectful of a child's healthy desire for straightforward information. The information is up-to-date, age-appropriate, and scientifically accurate, and always aimed at helping kids feel proud, knowledgeable, and comfortable about their own bodies.

LAID. Young People’s Experiences with Sex in an Easy-Access Culture. Shannon Boodram, $19.95

LAID offers more than 40 personal narratives—from young women and men—about everything involving sex and being sexual. Need-to-know facts and Q&A’s accompany each chapter, providing food for thought on the many important and often maligned or misunderstood topics this book addresses.

The Little Black Book for Girlz: a Book on Healthy Sexuality. By Youth, for Youth (St. Stephen’s Community House), $9.95

The Little Black Book for Girlz is a book on healthy sexuality written by girls for girls. A diverse group of urban teens went looking for information about sexuality. They collected stories, poetry, interviews, art and more from other youth and health care workers. The result is an honest, factual look at the physical and emotional issues young women face — a powerful presentation of real-life examples and life-saving info.

The Little Black Book for Guys: Guys Talk about Sex. By Youth for Youth (St. Stephen’s Community House), $9.95

A survival guide to being a guy. Lots of guys talk the big talk, but what’s really going on with sex? That’s what a group of young men sat down to figure out for The Little Black Book for Guys. To get behind the hype, they talked to other teens and collected stories, poems, essays, and art about personal experiences. They also interviewed health professionals to get the facts they need to make healthy choices. The result is a revealing collection of personal thoughts and need-to-know information. Topics include:

• Puberty • Wet dreams • Masturbation • Penis size • Dating • Safer sex and birth control
• Sexually Transmitted Infections / AIDS

Written, illustrated, and designed by youth, and carefully vetted by doctors, The Little Black Book for Guys is more than a book about sex. It’s a snapshot of being a guy at the beginning of the 21st century.

Contains frank descriptions of sexuality and coarse language.

Me, Myself and I: All about Sex and Puberty. Louise Spilsbury & Mike Gordon, $11.99

Being a young teenager and going through puberty is like a roller-coaster ride — there are so many ups and downs! This essential guide is packed full of information and advice that will help you on this wild ride!

My Body Belongs to Me. Jill Starshevsky, $16.95 (ages 3-10)

My Body Belongs to Me helps children learn that when it comes to their bodies, there are boundaries. It assures them that it is okay to tell if someone touches their “private parts.” Rhyming text and colourful illustrations help parents, caregivers and educators initiate this important dialogue with children.

My Changing Body, Boy’s Edition. Linda Picone, $11.95

My Changing Body, Girl’s Edition. Linda Picone, $11.95

Designed to be used either as a parent-child communication tool or as a book that boys and girls can read on their own, the My Changing Body books are practical, insightful and informative guides to the transitions youth face in the middle school years and beyond.

The New Speaking of Sex: What Your Children Need to Know and When They Need to Know It. Meg Hickling, $24.95 DVD format

This 2-DVD set (4 hours total) is perfect for parents and grandparents who want easy access to Meg Hickling’s amazing, age-appropriate sexual health presentations, as their children grow and mature. Children, too, will enjoy watching Meg discuss babies and body science with their parents in the safety and privacy of their own home.  Each disk in the set contains two presentations:

Disk 1: Part 1/ Parents and Grandparents; Part 2/ Primaries (Grades 1–3)

Disk 2: Part 1/ Intermediates (Grades 4–7); Part 2/ Teens (Grades 7–12)

The New Speaking of Sex: What Your Children Need to Know and When They Need to Know It. Meg Hickling, $19.95

Meg Hickling’s tone is warm, friendly, often humorous and straightforward. Her ability to discuss difficult or controversial subjects with sensitivity and honesty makes The New Speaking of Sex is a remarkable tool for families from birth through adolescence. This latest edition of her popular book is fully updated and has been expanded to include a new section on ‘Kids, Sex and the Internet.’

101 Ways to Dance. Kathy Stinson, $9.95 (ages 13 and up)

In this risqué collection, award-winning author for young people Kathy Stinson offers characters and plotlines that reflect the many ways teens learn about lust and love. From the first stirrings of same-sex desire on a lakeside beach to troubling paternity questions around a teen pregnancy, Stinson's stories reflect both the sweetness and the scariness of teenage sexuality. Offers many opportunities for discussion, and also a great choice for reluctant readers. A must-have for all junior high and high school libraries.

Our Bodies, Ourselves. The Boston Women's Health Collective, $34.50

OUR BODIES, OURSELVES is the resource that women of all ages turn to for information about their bodies, sexuality, and reproductive health. Completely revised and updated, these pages provide women with the information and tools they need to make key health decisions — accurate, evidence-based information, input from leading experts, and personal stories from women who share their experiences. This new edition of OUR BODIES, OURSELVES includes the latest vital information on:

• SAFER SEX — how to engage in pleasurable, satisfying sexual experiences while protecting your health and the health of your partner.
• ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RISKS — including minimizing exposure to everyday pollutants that endanger reproductive health.
• BODY IMAGE — resisting negative media stereotypes and embracing healthier approaches to looking and feeling good.
• LOCAL AND GLOBAL ACTIVISM — using social media and organizing tactics to build community and advocate for policies that improve women's lives.
• As well as crucial information about gender identity, sexual orientation, birth control, abortion, pregnancy and birth, peri-menopause, and sexuality and sexual health as we age.

OUR BODIES, OURSELVES is a one-stop resource for women of all generations.

Our Teacher’s Having a Baby. Eve Bunting, illustrated by Diane de Groat, $9.50

This wonderful, warm and beautifully illustrated story is about a first-grade class and their year of excitement, anticipation and anxiety and joy over the pregnancy and birth of their beloved teacher’s baby.

From 'hooking up' to 'friends with benefits' — The Real Truth About Teens & Sex gives parents and teachers an inside look what teens are thinking, doing and talking about when it comes to sex and sexuality.

Sex After Baby … Why There Is None. Kathleen Hamilton, $19.95

After she had a baby at 39, Kathleen Hamilton's sexual desire dove overnight from, ‘Honey, can we please have sex tonight, I've got a headache?’ to nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada.

It was an identity crisis. Plus, it was no fun at all.

None of the books and articles Kathleen could find came close to explaining why she lost her libido, or how or when she might find it again. No one around Kathleen talked openly about her experience balancing sex and motherhood - until Kathleen asked.

Funny, frank, political, and poignant, Sex After Baby: Why There Is None is Kathleen's quest to bring the surprise triple orgasm back into her life. Along the way, the book reveals how Kathleen's questions about sex after baby — among her friends and neighbours and favourite books — brought her new, unexpected understanding of women's sexuality and women's lives.

Sexual Decisions: the Ultimate Teen Guide. L. Kris Gowen, $27.00

For teens too shy to talk to a parent about sex, Sexual Decisions offers sound advice on a personal level, filling in some of the blanks in their knowledge about sex and relationships. Designed to help teens ages 16 to 19 make their own decisions about sexuality Sexual Decisions explores the facts of sexual health and provides teens with thoughts to ponder regarding the feelings and emotions that surround sex.

Talking SEX with Your Kids: Keeping Them Safe and You Sane by Knowing What They’re Really Thinking. Amber Madison, $16.95

Forget about feeling embarrassed about having “the talk” with your kids. Research shows you’re the one they want to hear from when it comes to sex ed!

Talking to Your Kids about SEX: Turning “the talk” Into a Conversation for Life. Laura Berman, $19.95

Preparing their children for a healthy sexual future is one of the best things a parent can do. Talking to Your Kids about SEX gives parents the tools they’ll need to open the lines of communication with age-appropriate information, good timing and an easy and honest manner.

The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability: for All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain and Illness. Miriam Kaufman, Cory Silverberg and Fran Odette. $24.50

For everyone, men and women of all ages and sexual identities, The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability shows you everything you need to know to create a sex life that works for you! Includes:

• The "nuts and bolts" of sex — anatomy, orgasm, masturbation and more
• Building a positive sexual self-image
• How to deal with pain, fatigue and other physical problems during sex
• Sexual positions to minimize stress and maximize pleasure
• Finding partners and how to talk to partners about your disability
• How to discuss sex with physicians and other health care providers
• Safer sex solutions, including alternatives for people with latex and chemical sensitivities
• Plus an extensive collection of sex and disability resources including books, websites and organizations

Virgin Sex for Girls: a No-Regrets Guide to Safe and Healthy Sex. Darcy Luadzers, $17.95

Don’t just let sex happen. Be ready for it. Losing your virginity is a taboo subject in many families and schools, which means you could be lacking the real sex education and guidance that will help you decide if you are truly physically and emotionally ready — and how to say no if you aren't. Get the real story on:

• Why some girls have sex, and reasons you might not be ready
• Avoiding situations that could leave you feeling sad, scared, or embarrassed
• Date rape and sexual assault—what it is and how to prevent it
• Sex for the first time—who, what, when, why, and how
• How to develop a sexual voice to make the best choice for you

Virgin Sex for Girls features more than 40 true stories from teens and adults about their first experiences — the physical, emotional, and social consequences of having (and not having) sex. This girl's guide to safe and healthy sex uncovers the real truths on how to have sex without getting hurt — the first time and every time.

Virgin Sex for Guys: a No-Regrets Guide to Safe and Healthy Sex. Darcy Luadzers, $17.95

Be safe, not sorry. Even guys have second thoughts about having sex. Whether you are concerned about getting a STD, your religious values, or what your partner will say about you afterwards, Virgin Sex for Guys teaches you the physical, emotional, and social consequences of having (and not having) sex. This guy’s guide to safe and healthy sex uncovers the real truths on how to have sex without getting hurt — the first time and every time. Get the real story on:

• Sex for the first time—who, what, when, why, and how
• How to treat a girl right before, during, and after your relationship
• Preparing for sex—all about pregnancy, STDs, and your emotions
• Same-sex sex—how to know if you are gay or bisexual
• What to do when you or your girlfriend is not ready for sex

This is the real talk about sex, beyond the talk from your mom and dad, or the talk your friends gave you. It's the truth from a real, live sex therapist who wrote this book for YOU.

What Your Child Needs to Know about Sex (and When): a Straight-Talking Guide for Parents. Fred Kaeser, $16.99

Children are growing up faster than ever these days. From sexting to cyberbullying, challenges and pressures abound, even for kids as young as four or five. But parents can help their children grow up with integrity in a hyper-sexualized world by starting honest, clear communication about sex early and often in a child's life. WHAT YOUR CHILD NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT SEX is a practical parents' guide that goes far beyond the birds and the bees to offer families the tools they need for navigating how and when to have positive dialogues about sexuality.

Who Has What? All about Girls' Bodies and Boys' Bodies. Robie Harris, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott, $18.00 (ages 2-6)

Young children are curious about almost everything. Asking questions is one of many ways they learn about themselves and the world around them. WHO HAS WHAT is a simple story following Nellie and Gus on a family outing to the beach. Humorous illustrations, conversations between the siblings, and a clear text all reassure young kids that whether they have a girl's body or a boy's, their bodies are perfectly normal, healthy, and wonderful.