Growing Up for Girls Synopsis
With a focus on staying happy and confident, this book covers all the topics that girls want to find out about: moods and feelings, periods, what happens to boys as they grow up, diet, eating disorders, exercise, body image, sex and relationships, self-confidence, drink and drugs, exam stress, cyberbullying, and staying safe - both on and offline.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781474903240 |
| Publication date: |
1st August 2015 |
| Author: |
Felicity Brooks |
| Illustrator: |
Katie Lovell |
| Publisher: |
Usborne Publishing Ltd. an imprint of Usborne Publishing |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
270 pages |
| Series: |
Growing Up |
| Suitable For: |
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About Felicity Brooks
Felicity Brooks was born in Guildford in 1961. She studied English and Drama at Exeter University and worked in Theatre-in-Education and as a freelance lexicographer and teacher of trainee pilots before starting a career in children's publishing nearly 20 years ago.
As well as devising numerous novelty books for babies and toddlers, she has retold myths and legends and worked on encyclopedias, dictionaries, history, geography, languages, poetry, picture books, science, maths and nature.
Her books have won the Practical Pre-school gold and silver medals, the Right Start gold award, The TES Senior Information Book award, La Science se Livre award and been short-listed for the Aventis prizes for science books.
Felicity lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and their seven-year old daughter, Olivia.
author photo © Usborne Publishing
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