Cory Silverberg je uznávaný autor, který se zaměřuje na tvorbu inkluzivních děl pro děti i dospělé. Jeho práce, často ve spolupráci s dalšími tvůrci, zkoumá témata genderu, sexuality a těla s citem a přístupností. Silverbergův přístup je založen na jeho rozsáhlých zkušenostech jako sexuálního edukátora, což mu umožňuje vytvářet materiály, které jsou informativní, přístupné a respektující rozmanitost lidských zkušeností. Jeho knihy jsou ceněny pro svou schopnost zahájit důležité konverzace a podporovat porozumění v citlivých oblastech.
Komiksová kniha představující skvělý zdroj informací pro rodiče, pečující i pro všechny, kdo se věnují vzdělávání a chtějí s dětmi mluvit o sexu a sexualitě pozitivně a láskyplně a zároveň respektujícím a zábavným způsobem. Každá pestrobarevná kapitola začíná komiksem a končí otázkami či aktivitou, které se děti spolu se svými dospělými průvodci mohou věnovat. Na konci knihy je praktický slovníček obsahující slova, která se mohou obtížně vysvětlovat. Její intimní formát vznikl na základě stovky debat s dětmi, rodiči i odbornou veřejností.
Awarded the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction in 2016, this book presents engaging and informative content tailored for young readers. It explores significant themes and topics relevant to children, combining educational elements with captivating storytelling. The book aims to inspire curiosity and foster a love for learning, making it a valuable addition to children's literature that encourages exploration and understanding of the world around them.
Finalist for the 2014 Lambda Award for LGBT Children's/Young Adult “What Makes a Baby is extraordinary! Cory is a Dr. Spock for the 21st century.”—Susie Bright “A Truly Inclusive Way to Answer the Question 'Where Do Babies Come From?': The new book What Makes a Baby offers an origin story for all children, no matter what their families look like." —The Atlantic "This is a solid, occasionally quirky book on an important topic."—School Library Journal Geared to readers from preschool to age eight, What Makes a Baby is a book for every kind of family and every kind of kid. It is a twenty-first century children’s picture book about conception, gestation, and birth, which reflects the reality of our modern time by being inclusive of all kinds of kids, adults, and families, regardless of how many people were involved, their orientation, gender and other identity, or family composition. Just as important, the story doesn’t gender people or body parts, so most parents and families will find that it leaves room for them to educate their child without having to erase their own experience. Written by sexuality educator Cory Silverberg, and illustrated by award-winning Canadian artist Fiona Smyth, What Makes a Baby is as fun to look at as it is useful to read.
Álbum ilustrado que responde a las preguntas sobre el origen de los bebés, la concepción, la gestación y el nacimiento. Diseñado para ayudar a los padres a educar a sus hijos sobre estos temas de manera inclusiva, aborda la curiosidad infantil sobre la llegada de un nuevo miembro a la familia.
A completely new approach to learning about puberty, sex, and gender for kids 10+. Here is the much-anticipated third book in the trilogy that started with the award-winning What Makes a Baby and Sex Is a Funny Word "Silverberg's writing is fearless . . . Here is that rare voice that can talk about the hardest things kids go through in ways that are thoughtful, lighthearted and always respectful of their intelligence." —Rachel Brian, The New York Times Book Review In a bright graphic format featuring four dynamic middle schoolers, You Know, Sex grounds sex education in social justice, covering not only the big three of puberty—hormones, reproduction, and development—but also power, pleasure, and how to be a decent human being. Centering young people’s experiences of pressures and joy, risk and reward, and confusion and discovery, there are chapters on body autonomy, disclosure, stigma, harassment, pornography, trauma, masturbation, consent, boundaries and safety in our media-saturated world, puberty and reproduction that includes trans, non-binary, and intersex bodies and experience, and more. Racially and ethnically diverse, inclusive of cross-disability experience, this is a book for every kind of young person and every kind of family. You Know, Sex is the first thoroughly modern sex ed book for every body navigating puberty and adolesence, essential for kids, everyone who knows a kid, and anyone who has ever been a kid.
