RESOURCE LIST FOR AGES 0-5 YEARS 

Basic Strategies: Using books for education and to jump start conversations with your child of any age

  • Read the book before sharing it with your child. Understand what content is there and if you are comfortable sharing it with your child.

  • Especially with a younger child, reading the book together may be the way to go. 

    This will allow you to filter information, give alternate language, and answer immediate questions as you read.

  • Feel the freedom to read parts of a book together at one point and other parts later, or not at all. 

  • If you give your child a book, HAND it to them. Please don’t just leave it for them to find on their own. You want to communicate your availability and comfort in being their primary source of sexual health education.

  • Follow up so that you can answer questions and initiate discussion. Even if they do not come to you and ask--YOU initiate follow up conversation.

  • No book is perfect. No parent is perfect. We are not trying for perfect. The goal is to do the very best we can to give the right information at the right time.

BOOKS FOR BODY AWARENESS & BODY PARTS

Everyone Poops by Taro Gomi, illustrated by Amanda Mayer Stinchecum

Eyes, Nose, Fingers & Toes: A First Book All About You by Judy Hindley, illustrated by Brita Granstrom

Who Has What? All about Girls’ Bodies and Boys’ Bodies by Robie H. Harris, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott

Amazing You: Getting Smart About Your Private Parts by Gail Saltz & Lynne Cravath, illustrated by Lynne Avril Cravath

BOOKS ABOUT FAMILIES 

A Family is a Family is a Family by Sara O’Leary, illustrated by Qin Leng

The Family Book by Todd Parr

Who’s in My Family? by Robie Harris, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott

BOOKS ABOUT PREGNANCY AND WHERE BABIES COME FROM

What’s In There?: All About Before You Were Born by Robie Harris, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott

Where Do Babies Come From? by Jillian Roberts, illustrated by Cindy Revell

It’s Not the Stork! by Robie H. Harris, illustrated by Michael Emberley

BOOKS ON CONSENT AND BOUNDARIES

Your Body Belongs to You by Cornelia Maude Spelman, illustrated by Teri Weidner

No Means No! by Janeen Sanders, illustrated by Cherie Zamazing

I Said NO! A Kid to Kid Guide to Keeping Private Parts Private by Kimberly King, illustrated by Sue Rama

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