Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and You

2016 Winner of the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction

 

2016 ALA Stonewall Book Award, Honor Book

2016 ALA Notable Children's Book

 

A comic book for kids that includes children and families of all makeups, orientations, and gender identities, Sex Is a Funny Word is an essential resource about bodies, gender, and sexuality for children ages 8 to 10 as well as their parents and caregivers. Much more than the facts of life or "the birds and the bees, Sex Is a Funny Word opens up conversations between young people and their caregivers in a way that allows adults to convey their values and beliefs while providing information about boundaries, safety, and joy.

 

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to Lambda-nominated What Makes a Baby, from sex educator Cory Silverberg and artist Fiona Smyth, Sex Is a Funny Word reimagines sex talk for the twenty-first century.

Reason: Banned, LGBTQIA+ content; discussing gender identity and sex education; concerns that the title and illustrations were “inappropriate;” believed to lead children to “want to have sex or ask questions about sex”

Author: Cory Silverberg
Publisher: Triangle Square
Published: 07/28/2015
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 7.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781609806064
Award: Stonewall Book Award - Honor Book

About the Author
Raised by a children's librarian and a sex therapist, CORY SILVERBERG split the difference and grew up to be a sex educator and writer. With an academic background in education and counseling psychology, he has developed and facilitated workshops for hundreds of agencies across North America, working on a range of topics including sexuality and disability, sexual pleasure, and sexual communication. He is the co-author of The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability, and since 2005 he has worked as the Sexuality Guide for About.com. In 2012, Silverberg developed a book project--What Makes a Baby?--that became the best-funded children's book on Kickstarter. He subsequently signed a three-book deal with Seven Stories Press to produce a series of inclusive children's books about gender and sexuality. Silverberg lives in New York City.

 

FIONA SMYTH is a Toronto-based painter, illustrator, and cartoonist. Her first graphic novel, The Never Weres, was published by Annick Press in 2011. Fiona's comic Cheez was published in Exclaim! magazine for almost ten years, and her comic Fazooz was in Vice for eight years. Fiona teaches illustration and comics at OCAD U in Toronto.