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Usborne facts of life, growing up all about adolescence. Health minister yvette cooper said yesterday that dads were often less able than mums to explain the facts of life. She was born in boston, massachusetts on october 27, 1932. I like the way that it reiterates that a family takes a mom and a dad to make a baby. This book contains the following usborne facts of life titles. I was bought this when i was 8, over 20 years ago and it was a wonderful, insightful book then that answered so. Here are some reads to help you understand whats going on. Hes usually far too engrossed in whatever book hes reading on his kindle to even notice something as old media as. The american literary figure sylvia plath was a poet in addition to being an accomplished novelist and short story writer. This book looked too advanced for my 10 year old maybe it isnt but i read it with my year old son. The book focuses on the physical changes of the body as kids go through puberty and their entailing emotional changes.