What and Why - Böcker

A sensitive and informative guide to puberty for girls - tackling everything from body changes to mood swings, hormones and first periods. Bright, cartoon-style illustrations and scientific diagrams explain the physical and emotional changes of growing up in a simple and reassuring way, while the contents and index pages make key topics easy to find.Chapters in this book include:- Growing up- When will it happen?- Taller and wider- Getting hairy- Getting breasts- The bra business- How does it start?- What's it all about?- The changes inside you ...- ... and on the outside- Why periods happen- Using towels- Using tampons- Coping with periods- Your feelings- Good food- More about eating- Keep moving- Keep clean- From the neck up- How boys' bodies work- Boys have worries too- Problems to avoid

With bright, cartoon-style illustrations and clear diagrams this sensitive, detailed and informative guide explains male puberty in a reassuring and friendly way. It tackles everything from physical and hormonal changes to emotional upheaval. Ideal for libraries and schools, the contents and index pages make key topics easy to find.Chapters of this book include:- Growing up- When will it happen?- Getting bigger- Voice of doom- Getting hairy- Shaving- How does it start?- What's it all about?- Down there ...- ... and up here- Other boys look different- Your feelings- Power and responsibility- Good food- More about eating- Keep on moving- Filthy beasts- From the neck up- It's different for girls- Girls on the inside ...- ... and on the outside- A girl's life- Trials of life

An approachable introduction to what chemistry is, how it works and why it is vital to everyday life. Topics include: the periodic table, atom structure and radiation, and the scientific method, all illustrated with humorous illustrations and diagrams. With simple experiments to aid learning and internet links to recommended websites to find out more.Chapters in this book include:Introduction- What's chemistry all about?- How have chemists changed the world?What's the world made of?- What's an atom?- What's what?- Getting in a state- Molecules in the air- Knowing your properties- Sorting out substancesHow does it all work?- What's inside an atom?- The Periodic Table- How do shells work?- Sticking together?- Nuclear reactions- A brief history of atomsLets make things happen!- Reactions: the basics- Ready, steady, react!- Writing down reactions- Weird and wonderful reactions- All kinds of reactionsHow is chemistry useful?- Carbon chemistry- All about metals- Using gases- What about non metals?- Chemical Curiosities- How to tell what's whatOur chemical Universe- Where did the elements come from?- Rocks are chemicals too- What's up in the air?- Living chemistry- How does your body work?More about chemistry- Chemistry through the ages- How does chemistry work?

This book contains the following Usborne titles: What's biology all about?, What's chemistry all about? and What's physics all about? An accessible and informative guide to physics, chemistry and biology, how they work and how they apply to everyday life. Covers all the key science topics including electricity, the periodic table and the human body. Includes simple experiments and internet-links to recommended websites to find out more. Illustrated with humorous drawings, cartoons and diagrams.

This is a brand-new edition, with new content and all-new artwork, of THE go-to book for children to learn the facts of life. Aimed primarily at female readers, the book includes discussion of sex and gender identity, and sexuality. Using frank but clear and friendly language and pictures, this book explains all the changes that people with female bodies can expect to experience as they enter puberty. This ranges from physical body changes and new experiences such as what periods are and how to handle them, all the way to mental and emotional challenges that come with growing older and becoming more independent.The book is aimed at readers age 10 and up, who are likely just at the very start of their own puberty journey.Material is based on the original best-seller by Sue Meredith, but with new writing and expert input from professional sex educators and gender consultants.