Book List
Books for Fostering Healthy Sexual Development
For parents to read with younger children:
Used in the Care for Kids Curriculum:
- Uncle Willy's Tickles: A Child's Right to Say No by Marcie Aboff
- I Loved You Before You Were Born by Anne Bowen
- How Are You Peeling? By Saxton Freymann
- All By Myself by Mercer Mayer
- The Bare Naked Book by Kathy Stinson
Other Useful Books for Families:
- Feelings by Aliki
- Going to the Potty by Fred Rogers
- Everywhere Babies by Susan Myers
- See How You Grow by Dr. Patricia Pearse and Edwina Riddell
- Once Upon A Potty by Alona Frankel
- My Many Colored Days by Dr. Suess
- People by Peter Spier
- William’s Doll by Charlotte Zolotow
- Belly Buttons are Navels by Mark Schoen
- Where Did I Come From? By Peter Mayle
- Where Do Babies Come From? By Margaret, Bewley, & Shiela Sheffield
- How Babies and Families Are Made by Patricia Schaffer
- Did the Sun Shine When You Were Born? By Sol Gordon
- More More More Said the Baby by Vera Williams
- Amazing You: Getting Smart About Your Private Parts by Dr. Gail Saltz
For parents of younger children:
- Sexual Development of Young Children by Virginia and Edwin Lively
- Ourselves and Our Children: A Book By and For Parents by the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
For parents to read with older children:
- Sex Stuff for Kids 7-17: A Book of Practical Information and Ideas for Kids and Their Teachers and Parents by Carole Marsh
- Puberty: An Illustrated Manual for Parents and Daughters by Angela Hynes, Gita Lloyd (Contributor)
- Boy's Puberty: An Illustrated Manual for Parents and Sons by Alain Chirinian, Neal Yamamoto (Illustrator)
- What’s Happening to Me? by Peter Mayle, et al
- Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: Expanded Third Edition: A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships by Ruth Bell
- It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris, Michael Emberley (Illustrator)
- Our Bodies, Ourselves by the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
For parents of older children:
- A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescents by Patricia Hersch
- Living with Teens and Surviving by P. & M. Woods
- Between Parent and Teenager by Haim Ginott
- Teenagers: The Continuing Challenge by Shirley Gould
- You and Your Adolescent by Steinberg & Levine
- How to Parent Your Teenager by Fontenelle
For parents of children of all ages:
- Raising A Child Responsibly in A Sexually Permissive World by Sol and Judith Gordon
- Packaging Boyhood: Superheroes, Slackers, and Other Media Stereotypes by Sharon Lamb and L. Mikel Brown
- Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes by Sharon Lamb and L. Mikel Brown
- Sex Therapy and Kids: Addressing their Concerns Through Talk and Play by Sharon Lamb
- So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can do to Protect Their Kids by Diane E. Levin and Jean Kilbourne