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Modess puberty, menarche & menstruation booklet
Growing Up and Liking It: Andrea & Friends (1991, U.S.A.)

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

Judy Blume's famous book Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, copyrighted in 1970, seems to have influenced the colloquial and bold manner of Andrea & Friends, just as it has other booklets for girls. But more immediate influences were the 1972 & 1976 Growing Up booklets, which also employed three girls, one a know-it-all, one shy and one very busy - only the names were changed to protect the innocent (to borrow from an old radio program). Girls reading the booklets in school wouldn't have known this.

Compared with the similar booklets from the 1920s and 1930s, it is much more colloquial.

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

Below: Back & front covers. Each page of the booklet measures 5 1/4 x 8 1/2" (13.5 x 21.5 cm).
 
 

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