Positive Body Image for Kids | Cañon City Public Library

1) Love your body

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Sanders, Jessica

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My body is strong. My body can do amazing things. My body is my own. Freedom is loving your body with all its 'imperfections' and being the perfectly imperfect you. Learning To Love Your Body encourages young girls to admire and celebrate their bodies for all the amazing things they can do, and to help girls see that they are so much more than their bodies.

2) The care and keeping of you: The body book for girls

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Schaefer, Valorie Lee

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American Girl library

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It features tips, how-tos, and facts from the experts. You'll find answers to questions about your changing body, from hair care to healthy eating, bad breath to bras, periods to pimples, and everything in between.

3) The Care and Keeping of You 2: The Body Book for Older Girls

4) Being me (and loving it): stories and activities to help build self-esteem, confidence, body image and resilience in children

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Richards, Naomi

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A photocopiable resource to build confidence and self-esteem in children aged 5-11. It includes a collection of stories that each form a lesson plan covering issues such as body image and peer pressure. Each story is designed to be shared with the class, and there are a range of follow-up activities to reiterate the messages being taught.Show Less

5) Bodies are cool

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Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text celebrate bodies of all shapes, sizes, ages, and colors, with different kinds of hair, eyes, spots, scars, and more.

6) We move together

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"A bold and colorful exploration of all the ways that people navigate through the spaces around them and a celebration of the relationships we build along the way. We Move Together follows a mixed-ability group of kids as they creatively negotiate everyday barriers and find joy and connection in disability culture and community. A perfect tool for families, schools, and libraries to facilitate conversations about disability, accessibility, social...

7) Making choices for a healthy body

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Reeves, Diane Lindsey

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An age-appropriate look at the causes and consequences of choices children make every day to maintain a healthy body. Each title includes activities encouraging students to LOOK, THINK, MAKE A GUESS, ASK QUESTIONS, and CREATE. Colorful photos embrace diversity and backmatter encourages further learning on the topic. Index. Sources for further research. Glossary of key words. Informative sidebars. Table of contents. An age-appropriate look at the causes...

8) The best part of me: children talk about their bodies in pictures and words

9) Bodies are cool

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Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text celebrate bodies of all shapes, sizes, ages, and colors, with different kinds of hair, eyes, spots, scars, and more.

10) Love your body

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Sanders, Jessica

Description

My body is strong. My body can do amazing things. My body is my own. Freedom is loving your body with all its 'imperfections' and being the perfectly imperfect you. Learning To Love Your Body encourages young girls to admire and celebrate their bodies for all the amazing things they can do, and to help girls see that they are so much more than their bodies.

11) The busy body book: a kid's guide to fitness

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Rockwell, Lizzy

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An introduction to the human body, how it functions, and its need for exercise.

12) The care & keeping of you: the body book for younger girls

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Schaefer, Valorie Lee

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"Our best-selling body book for girls just got even better! With all-new illustrations and updated content for girls ages 8 and up, it features tips, how-tos, and facts from the experts. You'll find answers to questions about your changing body, from hair care to healthy eating, bad breath to bras, periods to pimples, and everything in between. Once you feel comfortable with what's happening, you'll be ready to move on to the The Care & Keeping of...

13) The boy's body book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up You!

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Dunham, Kelli S

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Discusses the physical and emotional transitions that boys undergo during puberty, including growth spurts, voice changes, sexual development, peer pressure, dating, and new relationships within the family.

14) Body pro: facts and figures about bad hair days, blemishes and being healthy

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Falligant, Erin

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Savvy. Girlology

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How often should you wash your hair? At what age do most girls start shaving their legs? How many girls your age wear makeup? Find the answers to these questions and more about growing up GIRL!

15) Every girl tells a story: a celebration of girls speaking their minds

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Presents the attitudes and achievements of a diverse group of girls between the ages of thirteen and eighteen living across the United States through portraits and their own words.

16) Strong is the new pretty: a celebration of girls being themselves

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Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs, the strength and spirit of girls being 100% themselves. Real beauty isnt about being a certain size, acting a certain way, wearing the right clothes, or having your hair done (or even brushed). Real...

17) I am enough

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Shares a story of loving who you are, respecting others and being kind to one another.

18) I believe I can

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I Believe I Can is an affirmation for boys and girls of every background to love and believe in themselves.

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"Big, small, curly, straight, loud, quiet, smooth, wrinkly. Lovely explores a world of differences that all add up to the same thing: we are all lovely!"--

20) Her body can

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Crenshaw, Katie

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"Her body is beautiful--strong, kind and wise. All bodies are lovely no matter their size. A book of poetic declarations of body positivity and self-love for all young girls"--Cover page [4].