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Anastasia Higginbotham: Tell Me about Sex, Grandma (2021, Dottir Press) 3 stars

"Patiently forthcoming with lessons your parents redacted, this necessary conversation stresses consent, sex positivity, and …

Beautiful, but too abstract for young children

3 stars

There are some great parts of this book. Love the art. The parts about adults not being allowed to have sex with kids are great. However, it's a little too poetic and abstract to be useful for the young children for which it is intended. It never actually says what sex is, though it does deal with the "secrecy" around communicating about sex with children. But it also says "sex is a revelation." That line is actually my primary complaint. That barely makes sense to me, so I can't imagine it making sense to a young child...especially when you finish the book without ever learning what sex is.