Where Did I Come From?: The Facts of Life Without Any Nonsense and with Illustrations

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Lyle Stuart, 1977 - Family & Relationships - 48 pages
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This classic book uses simple language and engaging cartoon illustrations to explain the facts of life to young children. Covers male and female reproductive organs (what they are called and what each does), love-making, orgasm, conception, growth inside the womb, labour and birth.
 

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Great explanation

User Review  - dawn k. - Overstock.com

This book is helpful to explain the relationship parents have before getting pregnant. I like the way that it reiterates that a family takes a mom and a dad to make a baby. Helpful cartoon pictures make process easier to explain to young and older children alike. Read full review

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User Review  - Sisifus - LibraryThing

This book is a "Must Have" in every parents library. It is easy to read -children will find the illustrations cute- and explain to any toddler who is beginning to ask: "Where did I come from?" kinds ... Read full review

Contents

Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Copyright

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"Where Did I Come From?": A Guide for Children and Parents
Peter Mayle
Limited preview - 2000
Where Did I Come From?: The Facts of Life Without Any Nonsense and with ...
Peter Mayle
Snippet view - 1977
Where Did I Come From-Clo
Peter Mayle
Snippet view - 1973
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Common terms and phrases

alive arms Arthur Robins baby bath beating beginning belly button bigger birth bookseller born boys bumps called Carole Livingston chest Claire close comes cord curled day long Dick Wilson difficult doctor Eighth face fingers football getting girl going grow hair hanging happens hard HOSPITAL illustrated important inside the mother kiss labor legs Look further man's penis Mayle and Arthur milk mother and father mother's breasts moving nice nine months Ninth nose notice opening Peter Mayle playing football push quicker ready reason remember rubbed Second Month semen Seventh Month shock skipping slowly special kind speck sperm meet spreads starts sticky stuff stomach ache stronger Take a look teeth thing Third Month tickle tickly feeling tiny tadpoles tiring toes tube unborn warm WHAT'S woman woman's vagina worry wriggling yelling

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About the author (1977)

Peter Mayle spent fifteen years in the advertising business before escaping in 1975 to write books, including his bestselling "A Year in Provence "and "Toujours Provence". His work has been translated into seventeen languages and he has contributed to a variety of newspapers and magazines. He lives with his wife in Provence.

Robbins is Professor of Art Therapy at the Pratt Institute and a Founding Director of the Institute of Expressive Analysis. He is on the board of directors of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis and has been on the faculty for over thirty years. He is also a New York State licensed psychologist and a graduate certified psychoanalyst.

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TitleWhere Did I Come From?: The Facts of Life Without Any Nonsense and with Illustrations
AuthorPeter Mayle
Illustrated byArthur Robins
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherLyle Stuart, 1977
ISBN0818402539, 9780818402531
Length48 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Family & Relationships / Life Stages / School Age
Juvenile Nonfiction / Health & Daily Living / Sexuality & Pregnancy
  
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