Puberty book

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Does anyone have a good recommendation for a fairly gentle and factual book about puberty for a nine-year-old girl? I have seen a fair bit on here recently about modern, woke books with questionable gender stereotypes in them. That would not be at all helpful to DD. She is a very scientifically minded child and has been brought up in a fairly unstereotyped environment.

She’s also like I was a child I would not be thrilled to be reading things which are trying to bang on about her femininity and refer to things like ‘blossoming’ or referring to insecurities she doesn’t posess.

Any recommendations gratefully received as I don’t want to waste loads of money buying, vetting and chucking out crap books.

I thought that the usbourne one- "what's happening to me" was good.
It's a while since we used it, so more up to date editions may be different.
But t language was clear and grown up enough.

I got 'The care and keeping of you, younger girls edition' for my 8yo. It's a bit American but seemed reasonably factual and age appropriate, covering hygiene and body changes (not sex and gender).

Sadly I can't get the dd to read it, as it is all a bit yuck apparently, however she has A cups & pubic hair appearing & I couldn't avoid the subject any longer, so just had to oh-so-casually dump periods on her inbetween toothbrushing and her reading to me

Seconding The Care and Keeping of You, though our edition is at least ten years old and predates gender madness.

It was a read-aloud for two of my girls about your dd's age.

Perfect! Thanks, I’ll get both of those (and possibly in older editions if I can)

Older editions of the 'lets talk' books by Robbie Harris. Excellent.