Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!)

By Sonya Renee Taylor,

Book cover of Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!): The Ultimate Puberty Book for Girls

Book description

A body-positive guide to help girls ages 8 to 12 navigate the changes of puberty and grow into women.

Puberty can be a difficult time for a young girl―and it’s natural not to know who (or what) to ask. Celebrate Your Body is a reassuring entry into puberty books for…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!) as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love this book because it encourages body positivity among girls who represent a vast variety of identities, especially when it comes to size. I appreciate that Taylor honors the possibility that a female-bodied girl may actually feel like their body and sex assigned at birth does not align, sometimes or all of the time, with how they feel about their gender. Not only does this book include “fascinating facts” boxes of practical and medically accurate information—and empathetically assures readers that “you have company” and are not alone—it pays tribute to body diversity and encourages body pride with its inclusive…

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