Book Review
A short overview of this book
Puberty Boy by Geoff Price is a highly detailed book about puberty for boys that is filled with pictures and great information.
This book is a little bit different to a lot of the other puberty books that are out there. It is more like a magazine than a book, with lots of images, the use of colour everywhere, and the breaking up of content into small sections. It provides lots of information and shares stories from other boys and men of growing up. It is an older book (2006) but the content is still very relevant.
This book shows penises with a foreskin (intact) as well as penises with a foreskin (circumcised).
Sexual intercourse is talked about in this book.
Ideal Age
Ideal for children aged 12+ years.
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Video Transcription
A transcription in case you are more of a reader than a listener
Okay, what we’ve got here is Puberty Boy, which is written by a guy called Geoff Price. Geoff is a guy who’s been running workshops for boys on a whole range of issues during weekends away and stuff. So he knows his stuff and he knows about what’s happening with young boys. So basically it’s a lot more doesn’t talk just about puberty. Puberty Girl is just about puberty menstruation and then some of the physical.
Well, obviously the physical, but the emotional changes as well. This one goes into a lot more than just that. So if I just show you, I’ll just find the start the Contents guide. So it talks about what puberty is and when changes that happen. Talks about exploring your body, does have a bit on what happens with girls, only a small section, but at least it’s included in there.
Talks about sexuality, talks about STIs, contraception and a few things like that. And it talks about what actually goes on in your head and what it is like to grow into a boy. So visually it’s set up very similar. So it has pictures and diagrams and text and you might have something there with a diagram or a drawing. And then you also have pages where there’s photos as well.
So visually it’s lovely. It’s broken up nicely. It’s got little pull out bits with information, breaks it up very nicely. Again, would I sit down and read this with my boy? Probably not, because it will take a while to go through and read this with your child, but it’s got a lot of really good, valuable information that boys need to know.
So the sort of book that you would buy and you would give it to your child and say, look, let’s talk about it if you’ve got your question and you touch on about it. So you might see an ad on the TV for pads and you might say to yourself, therefore, did it talk about in that book? Or you then bring up opportunities about other stuff. But all in all, it’s a really good book written by someone who knows what boys are going through as they’re going through puberty and as they’re going from being a boy to a man, but does touch on some of the stuff that pushes buttons for parents. So it does talk about sex and other things like that.
So a great book to have. Again, I’m pretty sure this hasn’t been updated. So it was 2005. It’s now eleven years old. But you know what?
You wouldn’t know it’s an eleven year old book. The only stuff that would really date would be the STIs and the contraception and possibly some of the patterns out there. I don’t even know. Sorry if it touches on pornography. No, it doesn’t.
So for a lot of the books now that are talking about what’s happening as teenagers, they really should be touching on pornography. But porn and kids and adults watching young adults watching porn has really only been something we’ve been talking them about for maybe the last 6, 7, 8, 9 years. So this book would have come out before Pobgraphy became an issue. But other than that, it’s a great book. Okay, cheers I hope that helps.
