An excellent approach to discussing safety, sexual curiosity, and abuse. There are opportunities nearly every page to discuss with your child specifics for your situation (like what YOU call private parts), people you can talk to, scenarios to practice, and how, if you tell someone something is wrong and they don’t help, you should keep telling until someone does, even no one believes you until you call 911. I especially appreciated the straight talk about how an abuser might Lie, Bribe, or Thre

An excellent approach to discussing safety, sexual curiosity, and abuse. There are opportunities nearly every page to discuss with your child specifics for your situation (like what YOU call private parts), people you can talk to, scenarios to practice, and how, if you tell someone something is wrong and they don’t help, you should keep telling until someone does, even no one believes you until you call 911. I especially appreciated the straight talk about how an abuser might Lie, Bribe, or Threaten to try to get you to do what they want, which doesn’t just apply to sexual abuse, and really struck my kid in thinking about bullying.



My six-year-old is fascinated with this book, and it’s clearly just the right time for it. There are lots of stories I would not have heard if we didn’t have this to read.



The only difficulty I had with this book is that my daughter felt she had to go put on a shirt when the book informed us that “private parts for girls” include what’s under an undershirt. This is an ongoing discussion in our house because it’s just “not fair” that boys/Dads get to wander around topless and girls (even “I’M VERY WARM” ONES) don’t, so our rule is you must wear a shirt outside the house, but whatever you want inside. It’s not the book’s fault that we have fewer rules about nipples showing than most people do, but I’m a little sad she’s so good at internalizing what someone else says is truth.