This clear and attractive book is the ideal choice for information on how puberty and adolescence affect health for top primary and secondary school pupils. With plenty of colourful photographs, illuminating diagrams and fascinating fact panels, it presents complex information in an easily understood way. Covering such topics as the male and female bodies, sexual organs, the changes puberty brings about for both girls and boys, growth and skin problems, it also explores emotional changes and their effects as well as sex. The book has been thoroughly checked by a PSHE consultant and includes a useful glossary, sources of further information and index. HEALTHY BODY: PUBERTY AND YOUR BODY is a differentiated (simplified) text edition of HEALTH AND FITNESS: HOW DOES ADOLESCENCE AFFECT ME?>

Author Biography

Alison Cooper has written and edited children's information books for many years. She is especially interested in history.