It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex & Sexual Health

Harris, R. (2004). It's perfectly normal: Changing bodies, growing up, sex, and sexual health.
         Boston, MA: Candlewick Press.

About the Book

It's Perfectly Normal is an information book about growing up. The book touches on several important topics for adolescent boys and girls. The "our body" part of the book has some graphic pictures, but important information to fully inform young people about their body and the opposite sex. I feel the author shares this very sensitive information in a non judgmental way. The book contains very pertinent information to help young people understand their changes and be more empathetic to people who are different from them.

Nonfiction Evaluation Criteria

Accuracy of information is the number one evaluation criteria I would assign to this nonfiction book. The topic is very sensitive in nature. People struggle to share accurate information with young people about sex and sexual development. The books preface has an over whelming amount of respected people from the field of human development endorsing the content of the book. The preface also has two pages of respectable book review sources sharing positive reviews. The author writes the information in a nonjudgmental, matter of fact manner, with out stereotypes. At times the book attempts to keep stereotypes from developing in young adolescent's mind sets.