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What Makes a Baby

a Book for Every Kind of Family and Every Kind of Kid
Apr 25, 2016aprill13 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This book gets big points from me for its gender neutral language. I absolutely love that it portrays reproduction outside of cis-gendered, heteronormative convention. Some bodies have uteri, some don't- it's just a plain scientific fact. So it then confounds me that the author gets horribly unscientific in other places. Kids can handle (and deserve!) real explanations of how our bodies work, and it frustrates me that a book that is smart enough to take the gender out of reproductive function gets unscientific enough to feel regressive.