It's Perfectly Normal By Robie H. Harris

I joined this Children's Book of the Month club and ordered my 10 year old step-daughter this book that I thought would be helpful.It is called It's Perfectly Normal (Changing Bodies, Growing up, Sex & Sexual Health).By Robie H Harris, illustrated by Michale Emberley.

This book is incredibly inappropriate for this age.It even says on the front for age 10 and up.I wouldn't show it to her at 16.

First of all, it may have some good chapters, but the illustrations just were so explicit, I couldn't bear to read it thoroughly.The basis of the book is to teach preteens about puberty and sex.I assumed since it was age 10 and up, it would be a basic description and it was not.There were graphic pictures of sex, masturbation, etc.There is a chapter on abortion!Really inappropriate to me because I thought that this book would help her understand what puberty was all about, and give a basic introduction to sex, not go on to tell her that if she got pregnant she could just end the pregnancy.

I don't recommend this book to anyone.And I was really dissappointed in the website I ordered it from for not making me aware that I was about to purchase some soft core pornography for my 10 year old.Thankfully she never saw it.