{"title":"Books by Cory Silverberg","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781609806064","title":"Sex Is a Funny Word","description":"\u003cb\u003e2016 Winner of the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2016 ALA Stonewall Book Award, Honor Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2016 ALA Notable Children's Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA comic book for kids that includes children and families of all makeups, orientations, and gender identities, \u003ci\u003eSex Is a Funny Word\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential resource about bodies, gender, and sexuality for children ages 8 to 10 as well as their parents and caregivers. Much more than the \"facts of life\" or “the birds and the bees,\" \u003ci\u003eSex Is a Funny Word\u003c\/i\u003e opens up conversations between young people and their caregivers in a way that allows adults to convey their values and beliefs while providing information about boundaries, safety, and joy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe eagerly anticipated follow up to Lambda-nominated \u003ci\u003eWhat Makes a Baby,\u003c\/i\u003e from sex educator \u003cb\u003eCory Silverberg\u003c\/b\u003e and artist \u003cb\u003eFiona Smyth\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSex Is a Funny Word\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines \"sex talk\" for the twenty-first century.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204736123058,"sku":"9781609806064","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781609806064.jpg?v=1786023234"},{"product_id":"9781644210802","title":"You Know, Sex","description":"\u003cb\u003e2023 ALA RAINBOW BOOK LIST\u003cbr\u003eWINNER 2023 DOUG WRIGHT AWARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eWhat Makes a Baby \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSex Is a Funny Word\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"    \u003cbr\u003e—Rachel Brian, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a bright graphic format featuring four dynamic middle schoolers, \u003ci\u003eYou Know, Sex\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCentering 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eRacially and ethnically diverse, inclusive of cross-disability experience, this is a book for every kind of young person and every kind of family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou Know, Sex\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204945969330,"sku":"9781644210802","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781644210802.jpg?v=1786024236"},{"product_id":"9781609804855","title":"What Makes a Baby","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2014 Lambda Award for LGBT Children's\/Young Adult\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWhat Makes a Baby\u003c\/i\u003e is extraordinary! Cory is a Dr. Spock for the 21st century.”—Susie Bright\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A Truly Inclusive Way to Answer the Question 'Where Do Babies Come From?': The new book \u003ci\u003eWhat Makes a Baby\u003c\/i\u003e offers an origin story for all children, no matter what their families look like.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This is a solid, occasionally quirky book on an important topic.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—School Library Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeared to readers from preschool to age eight, \u003ci\u003eWhat Makes a Baby\u003c\/i\u003e is a book for every kind of family and every kind of kid. It is a twenty-first century children’s picture book about conception, gestation, and birth, which reflects the reality of our modern time by being inclusive of all kinds of kids, adults, and families, regardless of how many people were involved, their orientation, gender and other identity, or family composition. Just as important, the story doesn’t gender people or body parts, so most parents and families will find that it leaves room for them to educate their child without having to erase their own experience. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten by sexuality educator Cory Silverberg, and illustrated by award-winning Canadian artist Fiona Smyth, \u003ci\u003eWhat Makes a Baby\u003c\/i\u003e is as fun to look at as it is useful to read.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56301923205493,"sku":"9781609804855","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781609804855_e957f849-bba0-480c-b61d-8bcf2fcd2b00.jpg?v=1786023230"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-cory-silverberg.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}