The Bare Naked Book

This book is wonderful. It’s inclusive and shows people in all colors, shapes, and sizes. It also shows people who have had top surgery, people with piercings, and people with vitiligo and stretch marks. Highly recommend!

A nice little kids book (well updated) about diversity of the body and how we come in all shapes and sizes. The illustrations are beautiful and show lots of diversity in color, disability, shape etc.

Bought this for our 26 month old and he loves it. It's a great book that does label some anatomical parts that other books skip over or juvenilize. I also appreciate how there is some (minor) diversity presented in this book and that the bodies represented are realistic representations of different ages, sizes,and shapes. Our 26 month old loves thinking about the story behind the book (e.g. what happened to the hurt knee? why is the baby crying?) and loves reading the book on his own since it's simple labels. Would definitely recommend this book!

Picture this: I've just recently had my first baby. In between feeding, I continually read about what is best for my baby. Body positivity! they say. Teach them the right names for their body parts! they say. I go searching and every single book I can find that actually shows an appropriate picture of a naked body to learn from is either a medical book, or a book about how to tell someone to stop touching you. Both of those types of books are great, and they meet specific needs. But I'm looking for a baby's first body book; I don't need to give a lecture on good touch/bad touch, or tell a two year old about the functionality of a fallopian tube.Enter the Bare Naked Book.This book is the same as any first body book, but it also has vaginas (vulvas, but it'll do) and penises and breasts and nipples. Why? Because we have them. End of story. And these body parts which might make an adult squeamish to say out loud are neatly sandwiched between other "normal" body parts - they start with your hair on your head, and end with your toes, stopping at all the other parts in between. I can't explain how nervous I was the first time I said to my child, "and... uh... this is your... vulvaturnthepage KNEES. I LOVE KNEES." But after countless reads, I got comfortable. And then talking about body parts became comfortable.This book brought so many great questions to the table."Where is my penis?""Well, Sweetie, you don't have one. You have a vulva.""Like Daddy?""No no, he has a penis. Mommy has a vulva.""Oh!"*end scene*As if this casual and comforting way of approaching body parts wasn't enough, the scenes in the book are magnificent: A messy bathroom. A day at the park. Playing on the beach. All of the moms and dads look LIKE PEOPLE: Funny looking hair, schlubby bodies, with happy loving faces.I am not kidding when I say that this book easily got my family on the right foot in terms of body positivity and candor. I have a feeling it can do the same for you.ETA: The version I am reviewing is the original, purple book. I love the idea of the diversification of the characters but (as said in other comments) if it is missing a basic discussion of body parts, I prefer the original.

My children were born in the mid 1980-1995 and this book has been a staple of their growing up. Now I have two grandchildren that want to pass this book on to. Ordered 3 to match how many children I have and they all have different memories of this book