It's Perfectly Normal

Harris, R. (2009). It's perfectly normal. Boston, MA: Candlewick Press. The general subject of It’s Perfectly Normal is it’s a non-fiction book with information and illustrations about sex, puberty, sexual health, and more. The major facts are It’s Perfectly Normal provides real information from experts available to anyone approaching adolescence. Extras included in It’s Perfectly Normal are “praises from the experts”, “a note to the reader”, a thank you list, an index, and two full pages available for note-taking. Recommendations for follow up reading include two other books by Robie H. Haris about sexuality, It’s So Amazing! and It’s Not the Stork!. I think the major strengths of It’s Perfectly Normal are the illustrations that can help visual learners understand terms and paragraphs better if they see the pictures. Lessons that might come from reading It’s Perfectly Normal are this book can help both parents and kids when they’re ready to have the talk. Also, this book can help define terms and answer questions kids might be to shy to ask or don’t fully understand. I believe It’s Perfectly Normal meets the physical developmental criteria because the entire book is about what physical changes happen to our bodies as we go through puberty, meets the mental developmental criteria because as we go through puberty, our minds are at war with other parts of our body, forcing us to make decisions we may have regretted in the future, and meets the emotional developmental criteria because our bodies release all kinds of hormones during puberty, causing us to have mood swings and experience new feelings, such as love.