Understanding Adolescence for Boys: A Body-Positive Guide to Puberty

Understanding Adolescence For Boys is a frank discussion about puberty and growing up with a focus on creating a positive relationship with your body.

Knowledge of our own bodies is a superpower because it helps us understand what's going on inside of us. This is especially true during adolescence--a time of big changes! This book helps readers understand what puberty and adolescence is all about, but more importantly, an illustrated guide to help you get to know your body . . . and yourself, and put you on the path to feeling good in your own skin.

With an authoritative yet welcoming voice, the author guides boys through the changes going on in their bodies with a focus on body positivity. Readers will come away from the book knowing that no matter what their body is doing, it's okay and perfect for them!

Author: Barbara Pietruszczak
Publisher: Arctis
Published: 11/05/2024
Pages: 210
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.70w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781646900428
ISBN10: 1646900421
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Health & Daily Living | Maturing
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Health & Daily Living | Mental Health
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Boys & Men

About the Author
BARBARA PIETRUSZCZAK is the co-creator of moonka publishing house and the author of books about body -positive puberty. She is also a journalist specializing in body image, sexuality, menstruation, taboos, and stereotypes related to the body. On social media, she runs the educational project Pani Miesiaczka (Miss Menstruation).

ANNA RUDAK lives and works in her hometown Gdansk (Poland), she graduated from the graphics department at the Academy of Fine Arts.

She creates graphics for cultural institutions, illustrations for magazines, music labels, packaging and the fashion and children's industries. There are many dreamy accents and symbols in her works that are meant to put you in a good mood. She gets inspired by the colours, moments and positive associations that she inserts into her works so that they can later resound in new spaces.

Agnes Monod-Gayraud is a translator and author of children's books, with a focus on non-fiction titles. Winner of the 2016 Best Scientific Writing Award from the UK's Society of Authors for The Book of Bees, published in by Thames and Hudson and Abrams Books (as Bees: A Honeyed History). Language editor for the Astronomy & Astrophysics academic journal, based at the Paris Observatory. Holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from New York University and an M.A. in American Cultural Studies from the University of Warsaw. A native New Yorker, she currently lives with her family in London and is writing her first children's book, also slated for publication in 2024.