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Own Your Period

4.26 (54 ratings by Goodreads)

English

By (author): Chella Quint

Illustrated by: Giovana Medeiros

Having a period is an incredible thing Own Your Period celebrates what the body can do and provides young people (age 9+) with everything they need to be prepared and empowered.  
 
This fact-filled guide to periods is bursting with positive, honest advice on managing and understanding menstruation, covering every aspect of periods as well as lots of advice on puberty and growing up in a warm, friendly and reassuring way.

Topics covered include the fascinating science behind why things happen, with all the details of menstruation through to the menopause explained, as well as answers to all essential questions like whats a vulva and what does it look like, what do periods actually feel like, and what happens if blood stains your clothes?

Menstrual expert and educator Chella Quints witty text slays superstitions, busts common myths and fights period shame, while providing practical information about menstrual products, tracking cycles and sharingher own personal stories.
 
Funny, insightful and warm illustrations with friendly chatty text makes this an everything-you-need-to-know essential handbook, which pre-teens can refer to before their periods start, and will appreciate when their cycle is more established. 

This complete guide will prove an invaluable companion to any young person about to start their first period, and will help them embrace their cycle with positivity and pride, and grow into healthy, happy people!

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 185 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Sep 2021
  • Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Age Group: Ages 12+
  • ISBN13: 9780711256637

About Chella Quint

Chella Quint is a Brooklyn-born Sheffield-based designer writer and performer. A former drama teacher and head of PSHE (Personal Social Health and Economics Education) Chella coined the phrase period positive in 2006 and founded #periodpositive to use humour and joy to challenge menstrual taboos and find long-term solutions to period poverty. She became a leading expert on menstruation education in the UK advising on regional and national policy on menstruation education and period poverty. She created the Period Positive Pledge as a framework for developing menstruation-inclusive policy and outreach. Chella writes and performs solo shows delivers public engagement projects and designs installations on themes inspired by science health taboo product design and social justice.Giovana Medeiros is a Brazilian illustrator based in Lisbon Portugal. She graduated in Fashion Design at SENAI/Criciúma Brazil and went to Dublin to study a Higher National Diploma at BCFE. Giovana's work focuses mainly on children's illustration but has also been applied to a series of different mediums such as books magazines textiles advertising games and apps. She works mainly digitally but in her spare time likes to explore traditional painting with watercolour and gouache. Her main inspirations come from nature women daily life literature and her travels. 

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