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2023 ALA RAINBOW BOOK LIST
WINNER 2023 DOUG WRIGHT AWARD
A completely new approach to learning about puberty, sex, and gender for kids 10+. Here is the much-anticipated third book in the trilogy that started with the award-winning What Makes a Baby and Sex Is a Funny Word
"Silverberg's writing is fearless . . . Here is that rare voice that can talk about the hardest things kids go through in ways that are thoughtful, lighthearted and always respectful of their intelligence."
—Rachel Brian, The New York Times Book Review
In a bright graphic format featuring four dynamic middle schoolers, You Know, Sex grounds sex education in social justice, covering not only the big three of puberty—hormones, reproduction, and development—but also power, pleasure, and how to be a decent human being.
Centering young people’s experiences of pressures and joy, risk and reward, and confusion and discovery, there are chapters on body autonomy, disclosure, stigma, harassment, pornography, trauma, masturbation, consent, boundaries and safety in our media-saturated world, puberty and reproduction that includes trans, non-binary, and intersex bodies and experience, and more.
Racially and ethnically diverse, inclusive of cross-disability experience, this is a book for every kind of young person and every kind of family.
You Know, Sex is the first thoroughly modern sex ed book for every body navigating puberty and adolesence, essential for kids, everyone who knows a kid, and anyone who has ever been a kid.
About the Author
Raised by a children's librarian and a sex therapist, Cory Silverberg grew up to be a sex educator and writer. He received his Masters of Education from the University of Toronto, and was a founding member of the Come As You Are Co-operative.
He is the former chair of educator certification for the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT), and teaches across North America on topics including sexuality and gender diversity, sex and disability, access, and inclusion. Cory is a regular contributor to CBC Parents, About.com, and the Huffington Post. He is the coauthor of The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability with Miriam Kaufman and Fran Odette.
Fiona Smyth is a multiple award-winning Toronto-based painter, illustrator, and cartoonist whose artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She was the original illustrator for Nickelodeon's "The Big Help" volunteerism campaign, and has appeared in Owl Magazine. Her first graphic novel, for kids ages ten and up, titled The Never Weres was published by Annick Press in 2011. Fiona's comic Cheez was published in Exclaim Magazine for almost ten years and her comic Fazooza was in Vice Magazine for eight years. Cheez 100, a collection of the first one hundred strips in Exclaim, was published by Pedlar Press in 2001. What Makes A Baby was Fiona's first picture book. Fiona teaches illustration and comics at OCAD U in Toronto.
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