See similar booklets - Read the 1944 Growing Up and Liking It - See covers of other Growing Up and Liking It booklets - ads for teenagers
Read most of a 1928 Australian edition of the Kotex booklet Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, and read three mid-1930s booklets by Kotex, including a much-changed version of Marjorie May's twelfth Birthday.
Read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets! And see covers of the booklets How shall I tell my daughter?, Growing up and liking it, and Personal Digest
Read the whole menarche booklet As One Girl to Another (Kotex, 1940).
See more Kotex items: First ad (1921) - ad 1928 (Sears and Roebuck catalog) - Lee Miller ads (first real person in amenstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928, Australian edition; there are many links here to Kotex items) - Preparing for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls; Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in Spanish showing disposal method - box from about 1969 - "Are you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - See more ads on the Ads for Teenagers main page
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Modess puberty, menarche & menstruation booklet
Growing Up and Liking It, 1972

Growing Up and Liking It is one of a series of books with the same title to tell menarcheal girls what is happening or about to happen to their bodies, with menstruation as well as other developments.

At first reading I thought it was a wooden version of Judy Blume's famous book Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, copyrighted in 1970. Compared with the similar booklets from the 1920s and 1930s, it is much more colloquial, but I think the writer(s) had a tin ear for what passes between girls of that age - at least that is how it appears to this non-expert in girls' conversation.

You decide for yourself.

Here's an ad for one of these booklets from the 1960s, and see many covers, 1944 - 1978.

The whole booklet is in color, but I wanted to make download of the files faster, so I changed it to black and white.


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pp. 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 16-17 18-19 20-21 22-23 - See similar booklets See covers of other Growing Up and Liking It booklets - ads for teenagers

See more ads for menarche-education booklets: Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1933), Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and German o.b. tampons (lower ad, 1981)
See also the booklets How shall I tell my daughter? (Modess, various dates), Growing up and liking it (Modess, various dates), and Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1928).
And read Lynn Peril's series about these and similar booklets!
See another ad for As One Girl to Another (1942), and the booklet itself.
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