100 Real Questions about Your First Period

One hundred real questions girls actually ask about their first period - including the awkward ones - answered plainly, kindly, and without a single embarrassed sentence.

Most period books answer the tidy questions. This one answers the crooked ones. What if it happens on the bus. What if I stain someone else's chair. What if I have to ask for money for supplies. What if the school bathroom has nothing in it. What if I tell an adult and they don't listen. Those questions get asked quietly, usually at night, and they are the ones that keep girls awake.

Written for girls aged 8 to 12, this is a book of one hundred numbered questions with short, self-contained answers. Open it anywhere and the page makes sense on its own - no need to have read what came before. Read one answer at bedtime or all hundred in an afternoon out of pure curiosity. The questions are worded roughly the way a girl would ask them, and no question is ever treated as silly, dramatic, or too much.

The tone is warm and direct, never babyish and never squeamish. There are no illustrations, no diagrams, no fill-in pages, and no lectures - just plain words and honest answers, including the honest answer that sometimes is "this one depends, and no book can know it for you - ask an adult you trust or a doctor."

WHAT IS INSIDE

- 100 numbered questions in ten themed chapters, each answer complete on its own page

- The practical stuff: pads, period underwear, tampons, cups, kits, stains, sheets, school bathrooms

- The awkward stuff: smells, chairs, sleepovers, asking a stranger, asking for money

- The feelings: crying at nothing, anger, wanting to be alone, hating the whole thing, feeling proud

- Other people: dads, brothers, friends, teachers, coaches, and families who never mention any of it

- A clear safety section on when to tell an adult or ask to see a doctor

- How to say it so you are taken seriously - and what to do if the first adult doesn't listen

PERFECT FOR

- Girls 8-12 who would rather read an answer than ask out loud

- Parents, grandparents, aunts, and godparents looking for a first period book that is calm and unembarrassed

- Teachers and school nurses who want something a girl can borrow and open anywhere

- Anyone who would rather she found this in a book than guessed

Give her the answers before she needs them.