This terrific book is celebrating with a 10th anniversary birthday edition.

When Fiona Katauskas’ curious young son started asking those big questions about where babies come from, she went looking for a book to help her explain. But all she found was Where Did I Come From? – a classic from the 1970s. So, she decided to create something new.

The Amazing True Story of How Babies Are Made is the result – and it’s become a go-to resource for parents ever since. Packed with facts, loads of humour, and wonderfully engaging illustrations, it takes kids (and parents) on a clear, honest, and age-appropriate journey through human reproduction. It covers everything from the differences between boys and girls, puberty, periods, sex, IVF, twins, pregnancy, birth, belly buttons, prem babies, and feeding newborns. And there’s more.

It answers all those tricky questions children love to ask – in a way that’s both informative and entertaining. Straight-talking and funny, this book tells it like it is, with warmth, wit, and just the right amount of cheekiness.

Perfect for curious kids and the parents who need a little help answering their questions.

Reviewed by Jane Stephens

Age Guide 5+

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I became a cartoonist quite accidentally. Prior to this incarnation, I studied politics at the Australian National University, travelled extensively and worked in overseas aid and human rights. Finding myself made redundant in late 1996, I despaired for a bit (as you do) then, with a bit of hassling from friends who’d been receiving my handmade birthday cards for years, embraced the personal reinvention zeitgeist and took up the pen on a full-time basis in 1997.

Since then, my work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, The Bulletin, The Chaser, Eureka Street and New Matilda. My political cartoons have popped up regularly in the National Museum’s annual Behind the Lines exhibition and Scribe’s yearly Best Australian Political Cartoons anthologies (including the cover of the 2009 edition). I’ve also illustrated loads of books for just about every publisher, designed cards for the Ink Group and t-shirts for Mambo.

Cartoonists are lucky folk indeed- able to take all their experiences, beliefs, bile and passion, wrap them up in a metaphor and get inky fingers in the process. It’s bucketloads of fun.

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