Puberty Boy Geoff Price by Geoff Price 9781741145632, 1741145635 instant download after payment.

Have you ever noticed, now that you're growing up, that your parents want to sit you down and have these embarrassing kinds of conversations with you about sex?

Or they leave those 'educational' books about growing up lying around the house? Or you've got some questions about what's happening to your body but you just can't hack the thought of talking about it with your mum?

Well, Puberty Boy sidesteps embarrassing conversations and gives the full low down on what it means to be growing up. And it's written just for you.

In this book, real men and boys share their stories about puberty. This lighthearted, plain speaking and honest book tells you what puberty is, when it happens and how your bodies will change. It explores the thinking and emotional changes that are happening alongside the physical and even tackles how to talk to girls! There's a brain shift happening inside you at puberty and Geoff Price makes sure that you know about it and are equipped to handle it.

Puberty Boy explains the transitions that boys need to go through to become healthy young men in a unique, colourful and commonsense way. It is an essential guide for boys—and your parents, carers and teachers might even find it useful as well! (Hey, leave it lying around for them to find.)

Grades 5-9 — This book has its heart in the right place, but it misses the mark, beginning with the condescending note of its very title. Price seeks to arm boys approaching and experiencing puberty with information that will calm fears and answer questions. He includes detailed drawings and diagrams of male and female anatomy and addresses every topic from sweat to semen, body odor to body image, masturbation to man-boobs. The text is augmented with boys and mens real stories about puberty. However, Price writes —on and on and on— in a chummy tone that intends to invite and befriend, but actually treats readers childishly (Sperm–those tadpole thingies!). The book is full of Aussie-isms (STDs become STIs, and just what is bum fluff?), and the referenced Web sites are mainly Australian. Bright photographs are splashed everywhere; when white type is printed on busy backgrounds, it is difficult to read. Stick with Lynda Madarass tried-and-true The Whats Happening to My Body? Book for Boys (Newmarket, 1991). —Joyce Adams Burner, Hillcrest Library, Prairie Village, KS

Grades 5-8 — Like its companion title, Puberty Girl (2005), by Shushann Movsessian, this Australian import is a frank, reassuring discussion of male adolescence. Chapters on physiology present information clearly, in a colloquial voice that is never stuffy or condescending, and the questions that are asked and answered seem straight from kids: "Why is semen such a blob?" for example. The mechanics of sex aren't addressed, but there is some discussion of STDs and the emotional maturity intimacy requires. The book's unusual holistic approach includes coverage of the emotional changes, independence, and responsibility that come with puberty. There are also excellent suggestions to help boys connect respectfully with girls, find a mentor, develop emotional intelligence, and distinguish between "boy thinking" and "young man thinking." Although the Australian slang may both confuse and amuse readers ("bum fuzz," for example, indicates the soft hair on pubescent boys' faces), the candid quotes from boys and men, and many color photos and diagrams, greatly enhance this welcome title. Too bad the resource list wasn't updated for a U.S. audience. —Gillian Engberg

Geoff Price has been running wilderness camps that help young boys make the transition from boyhood to adulthood for the last 10 years. He works as a counselor, mediator, and facilitator in private practice.