Amazing You: Getting Smart About Your Private Parts: A First Guide to Body Awareness for Pre-Schoolers

My children are almost 4 (girl) and 6 (boy). Note, that before reading the book, they already knew and use the correct names for their private parts (vulva, which is somehow not used in the book even once, vagina and penis) that were introduced to them early as part of their daily hygiene routine. They already knew that a mother gives birth to a child. The book is easy and nicely written. The reason to start sex ed at home early is children at this age do not have proper understanding of the processes and they do not have body and sex related shame, awkwardness and shiness which will take place later, when out of the blue, a parent decides to discuss this stuff with an older child. This simple book helps introduce the correct vocabulary and makes body discussions fun rather than awkward. It helps lay the foundation for discussions at later stages. For 9-11 year olds, I recommend Usborne What's happening to me for Boys/Girls. Start sex ed early to establish the supporive and open environment for your children.

This is like a mini biology book. This is not for preschoolers, too much information. I would definitely start off with more basic books and get to this 5 years later maybe at the age of 8 or more cause it talks about eggs, sperm and urethra.

Everyone will have different view and comfort on this topic but personally speaking I found this book to be too bold to be introduced at early age. It’s like reading a biology book to kids.

If you’re one of those who have the courage to be open minded with your children then this book is for you.. the rest don’t bother

Its a good book for beginning conversation on private parts. For my 3 year old I don't read out all the text, only as much as she is curious about. This book does not include about keeping safe, not keeping secrets etc. You will need another book for it.

Great introductory book to teach private parts and privacy.

wonderful to have such books available for children. They are amazing and they need to learn and love them selves.

I bought this book 2 years ago (along with The underpants rule book and others). As a doctor I'm comfortable using the correct terms and my son thanks me for it. It's so important that they understand what their parts are for as well as consent. In the last year a paedophile was unmasked in my friends' church (he was such a good man, always went to church etc etc - no one suspected). Don't worry about it being 'too much information' , children filter out boring stuff, and move onto what's important to them at that time. Should be available in all nurseries!

Oh! This is a perfect book for parents and children. It’s answer the first questions, child can have: where are the babies coming from?

Would have been good but yet another book that fails to name parts correctly for a girl/women, boys get their parts named but it focuses on internal parts for girls rather than external I.e. vulva. It mentions how babies are made rather than the actual mechanics so good for early years/key stage one

It’s a pretty nice book except 1 glaring problem for which I will be returning this book. There are 6 pictures of penises and they are all circumcised. It is very unfortunate that the Dr. Gail Saltz did not have one pictures of an uncircumcised penis, maybe explaining that “some penises still have their fore skin and and that is normal too”. C’mon I’d expect a little more anatomical accuracy considering uncircumcised is the natural unadultered male anatomy; Worldwide it is actually more common than circumcised.

I think it's important to teach young children at least the correct names for their private parts as soon as they are old enough to notice and start asking questions. I have had this conversation with my pre-schooler to not only make him aware of the name but also the personal nature of his genitals, for safe-guarding reasons. I.e. they are his property alone for looking at and touching! I found this book endearing and simple to read. The only thing I would have omitted was the diagrammatical illustration of the inner parts of the reproductive organs. I felt this went over my child's head somewhat because it relates to the internal anatomy that he can't see. It was also a bit confusing because he couldn't make sense of the diagram. The book also should make up its mind about whether it is purely discussing sexual organs and puberty, or discussing sexual intercourse and reproduction. Trying to do both superficially didn't really work. However, as a starter book this is fine and I would recommend to all responsible parents to open up an honest dialogue with your child about the sexual organs and privacy.