Project RED's Favourite Period Books!🩸

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This frank, funny guide to getting your period gives preteens all they need to master—and even celebrate!—menstruation.

Getting your period for the first time can be mortifying, weird, and messy—and asking questions about it can feel even worse. But it doesn’t have to be that way. This taboo-free guide is packed with honest advice and big-sisterly wisdom on all the things girls need to know: from what cramps feel like to whether you can feel blood coming out, to what you should do if your pad leaks onto your clothes. 

Welcome to Your Period includes case studies, first-person accounts, questions from real teens, and answers from health journalist Yumi Stynes and adolescent health specialist Melissa Kang, MD. Cheerful illustrations keep the tone fun, and help with how-tos on different period supplies. There are even suggestions for throwing a first-period party. With its inclusive, body-positive message, pocket size, and reassuring vibe, this must-have menstruation manual will make girls feel not only normal but proud.

A body-positive guide to help girls ages 8 to 12 navigate the changes of puberty and grow into women

Puberty can be a difficult time for a young girl—and it's natural not to know who (or what) to ask. Celebrate Your Body is a reassuring puberty book for girls that encourages them to face puberty and their body's changes with excitement and empowerment. From period care to mysterious hair in new places, this age-appropriate sex education book has the answers young girls are looking for—in a way that they can relate to.

Covering everything from bras to braces, this body-positive puberty book for girls offers friendly guidance and support for when it's needed most. In addition to tips on managing intense feelings, making friends, and more, this book provides advice on what to eat and how to exercise so your body is healthy, happy, and ready for the changes ahead.

Puberty comes with a lot of changes. The Period Comic (An Illustrated book) will help girls understand and learn about such changes in their bodies in a fun, easy and intriguing way as they continue to grow, whilst building their self-confidence. For many girls, puberty can be an uncertain time.

The Period Comic includes everything girls need to know about growing breasts, acne or pimples, their periods, hair in private areas, feelings, nutrition, managing period cramps, preparing for your first period, period poverty, and so much more. This book has practical steps to guide them as they learn about the amazing changes happening in their bodies during puberty and beyond. Among puberty and period books for girls, The Period Comic offers encouraging support while answering real questions that girls have about puberty. Positive, judgment-free, and medically accurate, this book discusses puberty in a way that young girls can relate to. The book was medically reviewed by an experienced gynecologist.

The Period Comic is a thrilling and engaging story of three friends on an intriguing weekend of discovery, where they discover and learn about their bodies, puberty and periods. Though, they are from diverse cultural backgrounds, one thing they share in common is the changes happening in their bodies as they grow

 High school students embark on a crash course of friendship, female empowerment, and women's health issues in Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann's graphic novel Go With the Flow.

Good friends help you go with the flow.
Best friends help you start a revolution.

Sophomores Abby, Brit, Christine, and Sasha are fed up. Hazelton High never has enough tampons. Or pads. Or adults who will listen.

Sick of an administration that puts football before female health, the girls confront a world that shrugs—or worse, squirms—at the thought of a menstruation revolution. They band together to make a change. It’s no easy task, especially while grappling with everything from crushes to trig to JV track but they have each other’s backs. That is, until one of the girls goes rogue, testing the limits of their friendship and pushing the friends to question the power of their own voices.

Now they must learn to work together to raise each other up. But how to you stand your ground while raising bloody hell? 

 Backed by the experts at Mayo Clinic, PERIOD. is the no-nonsense guide kids and caregivers alike can trust to navigate menstruation, period.

Periods. Every person who menstruates has a different relationship with their "Aunt Flow": some good, and some...not so good. This 4-color graphic novel guide embraces all the icky, all the sticky, and all the confusing aspects of the monthly cycle, acknowledging that there's no cookie cutter way to manage the physical and emotional mayhem.
Filled with bite-sized tips, tricks, and "inside" medical information, this humorous, character-driven guide is the best friend you never knew you needed. And with its fully gender-, body-, and sexuality-inclusive content, this is the no-judgement zone. Whether you're dreading your first period or can't wait to throw a Period Party, you'll find all the answers you need right here.

Mayo Clinic Press Kids creates empowering health and wellness content in partnership with pediatric experts. Proceeds from the sale of every book go to benefit important medical research and education and Mayo Clinic. 

 Dr. Allison K. Rodgers, Neon Squid

Illustrated by Annika Le Large 

 *A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2023*
*A School Library Journal Best Book of 2023*
*A National Science Teachers Association Outstanding Science Trade Book*
*A DC Capitol Choices Award Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens Ages Ten to Fourteen*

Do you know the difference between a vagina and a vulva? If you’re not sure, We Need to Talk About Vaginas by TikToker Dr. Allison K. Rodgers could be for you!

There are lots of reasons why we don’t talk about vaginas. It can be embarrassing to discuss your vagina with your parents, we can feel confused about the changes that are happening to our bodies, and nobody else talks about vaginas—so why should you?

But KNOWLEDGE IS POWER people! The more we know about our vaginas and vulvas the better equipped we will be to deal with our bodies in the future. In this beautifully illustrated book Dr. Allison K. Rodgers simply explains everything from why we have periods to sex and consent in the age of social media. You’ll learn the correct names for everything, realize pubic hair is TOTALLY NORMAL, and discover the magical self-cleaning properties of vaginas.

 Following the journey of three young girls and their experiences with periods, Menstrupedia Comic is a fun and easy to understand guide to menstruation. It offers reassuring answers to the questions that young girls have about periods.

 It offers practical guidance based on real-life stories✔ It is well researched and medically accurate✔ It is culturally sensitive. 

With beautiful illustrations and cartoon characters, Menstrupedia Comic book is a comprehensive girls guide to growing up that will make you comfortable talking about periods.

Over 7500 schools and 270 NGOs in India are using Menstrupedia comic to teach about periods. This book is available in English, Hindi and all other Indian languages.

Menstrupedia comic is a fun and empowering puberty guide.

(bought to you by Stayfree) 

This book follows the journey of a young girl Named Nyoka that "finally" got her period, and how she navigated the stigma associated with young girls and how they are impacted.

Cynthia Pokuah, a self proclaimed Period Enthusiast, is dedicated to making an impact to the lives of young girls around the world. She was motivated to write this book after being part of FORWARD's TuWezeshe Akina Dada Fellowship. 

TuWezeshe Akina Dada, which is Swahili for ‘empowering our sisters’, is a feminist leadership programme seeking to inspire a generation of young African women to engage in the civil and political spheres and galvanise collective action against all forms of violence against women and girls (VAWG).

Through the Fellowship, Cynthia carried out a series of workshops for young girls aged between 11-15. This is where she discovered that many girls has very limited knowledge on menstruation and menstrual hygiene. ‘Something is Different This Morning’ is therefore a product of Cynthia’s determination to challenge the social stigma surrounding menstruation and educate young girls about their periods and menstrual hygiene.

 Written by   Dr. Shaniff Esmail Ph.D. (Author), Erin Holman MScOT (Author), Erika Smith MScOT (Author), Victoria Van Bavel MScOT (Author), Stellen Omilusik MscOT (Author), Sutapa Mondal (Illustrator) 

 Menstruation and Me is an activity-based book is intended for girls with intellectual disabilities who are beginning or going through puberty. It is also designed for parents, caregivers, healthcare professionals, teachers and service providers to provide support to the girls on this journey.