✅ Jewish Life Stories: The authors that left us - The Jerusalem Post

Robie H. Harris, 83, whose best-selling sex-ed books for children earned her awards and a prominent place on lists of banned books, died January 6 in New York. She was 83.Her 1994 book, “It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health,” featuring frank talk about puberty and same-sex relationships for children 10 and up, was translated into 27 languages and sold 1 million copies, according to PEN America. The New Yorker said it had “an endearing and companionable matter-of-factness.”But that matter-of-factness made it a target of book bannings, and 30 years after its first publication it continues to make the American Library Association’s list of “Frequently Challenged Children’s Books,” along with two other Harris ...

Jerusalem Post     Feb 15, 2024