Birds + Bees + Kids® Book List


Books about sex are the best way for you and your kids to learn about the birds and the bees. Throw one in with their nightly reading, toss it on a bed, or read one of the books for adults and broaden your own horizons!



3 to 8 year olds | 8 and older| 14 and older | Parents and other adults

The
Ask
ANYTHING
Journal

Birds + Bees + YOUR Kids
-A guide to sharing your beliefs about sexuality,
love, and relationships

The Ask Anything Journal Book Cover Image The Guide to Sharing Your Beliefs Book Cover Image

This journal is just what your kids need to find out anything they want to know about life, love, bodies, relationships, sex, drugs, friendships, spirituality, death and anything in between. They write down their question, hand the journal off to you and you write a response. Fewer embarrassing face-to-face conversations about embarrassing stuff.

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A sample chapter from The Guide - Teens and sex—what DO
you believe?
(675kb PDF download)

You know you need to talk to your kids about sex, but don't know where to start. This is the place. When you clarify your values and beliefs about sexuality, love and relationships, you will have the solid foundation you want and need to talk to your kids about this important part of life. The exercises are short, easy to understand and leave you feeling confident and inspired to talk to your kids. No other book will prepare you for the "sex talk" like this one.

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Books for Kids

Recommended for ages 3 to 8

What's the Big Secret? Laurie Krasny Brown, Ed.D. and Marc Brown

It's NOT the Stork Robie Harris and Michael Emberley

It's So Amazing! A book about eggs, sperm, birth, babies and families Robie Harris

It's My Body (Children's Safety & Abuse Prevention)A book to teach young children how to resist uncomfortable touch Lory Freeman and Carol Deach

Your Body Belongs to You Cornelia Spelman and Teri Weidner

Recommended for ages 8 and older

The Ask ANYTHING Journal Amy Lang

What's Happening to Me? Peter Mayle

It's Perfectly Normal! Changing bodies, growing up, sex and sexual health Robbie Harris

The Care & Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls (American Girl Library) Valerie Schaefer

The Girl's Body Book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up YOU (Girlsworld) Kelly Dunham and Laura Tallardy 

The Boy's Body Book: Everything You Need To Know For Growing Up YOU! Kelly Dunham and Steven Bjorkman

What's Going on Down There? Answers to Questions Boys Find Hard to Ask Karen Gravelle with Nick and Chava Castro

Recommended ages 14 and older

Changing Bodies - Changing Lives Ruth Bell and others

Body Drama: Real Girls, Real Bodies, Real Issues, Real Answers Nancy Redd

GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer and Questioning Teens Kelly Huegel and Steven Cozza



Books for Parents and other adults

Birds + Bees + YOUR Kids—A guide to sharing your beliefs about sexuality, love, and relationships Amy Lang, MA

The Talk: What Your Kids Need to Hear from You About Sex Sharon Maxwell, Ph.D.

Protecting the Gift, Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane) Gavin De Becker

Smut: A Sex-Industry Insider (and Concerned Father) Says Enough is Enough Gil Reavill

The Primal Teen - What The New Discoveries About The Teenage Brain Tell Us About Our Kids Barbara Strauch

So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their KidsDiane Levin and Jean Kilbourne

Teaching Children with Down Syndrome about Their Bodies, Boundaries, and Sexuality Terri Couwenhoven