![]() Images of Grandma’s row-house neighborhood and comfortable apartment, decorated with religious images and looking out on trees, tell readers more about their world. The pair are black: the child has a reddish Afro and Grandma sports beaded hair (and very cool shoes). ![]() With whom and how “belongs to no one else but you.” The child reiterates the lesson: what’s most important is the personal choice: “I am the one-and-only, top-boss, in-charge decider about sex in my life for my whole life.” Set on kraft paper, the collage illustrations have been assembled from a variety of materials including magazine pictures and photographs. “Sex is private.” It includes motion and feelings that grow and change as a child grows up. ![]() This is not a biology lesson or physical description it’s ethical and emotional. A speech-bubble conversation, occasionally interrupted by eating and play, accompanies narrative answers, stated simply but directly and stressing the child’s right to be curious. Higginbotham follows titles on death and divorce with a refreshingly different take on a child’s sex question. ![]() A small child asks Grandma what sex is and gets a wise response. ![]()
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