Any Body: A Comic Compendium of Important Facts and Feelings About Our Bodies

Any Body is a witty encyclopedia for children and early teens that covers interesting facts about skin, hair, and body functions, alongside questions about gender identity, beauty, consent, self-confidence, and how other people react and relate to us. It encourages acceptance of self and others through body diversity and positivity, with accessible and warm text and illustrations that are relatably funny and include charts, cartoons, and visual compliments.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 92 pages
Publication date: 01 May 2023
Publisher: Gecko Press

An honest, humorous, and factual book for children and early teens who want to understand and feel at home with their own bodies.

Expert Katharina von der Gathens many years of experience working with children as a sex educator are the basis for this witty encyclopedia covering interesting facts about skin, hair, and body functions alongside the questions that may affect us through puberty and beyond—gender identity, beauty, consent, self-confidence, how other people react and relate to us, and how they make us feel.

With accessible and warm text, Any Body gently acknowledges common feelings of ambivalence about our bodies. Through showing body diversity and positivity, it encourages acceptance of self and others. The illustrations are relatably funny and include charts, cartoons, and more—even a handy page of visual compliments.

This compendium is an encouraging starting point for conversations with children navigating puberty and laying the foundations for body acceptance in a straightforward and highly entertaining way.

Translated from the German edition by Shelley Tanaka.

Weight: 308g
Dimension: 245 x 168 x 10 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781776575466