My Little Red Book by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff

My Little Red Book is impossible to put down!!! A quick and entertaining read.

It breaks the barriers of age, religion, race and unreasonable taboos surrounding menstruation and first periods.

An an excellent book for women of nearly all ages. It is a collection of period stories from women all over the world. You will laugh and relive you first period and adolescent years. A great book to share or purchase for a friend, sister, cousin, mother, aunt or daughter. It is insightful and has stories from popular authors such as Meg Cabot. A great way to realize that women from all over the world and from different time periods have a lot more in common that you think. A Beautiful anthology of first periods. Go out and get your copy today. 

Grade: A+

Synopsis MY LITTLE RED BOOK is an anthology of stories about first periods, collected from women of all ages from around the world. The accounts range from light-hearted (the editor got hers while water skiing in a yellow bathing suit) to heart-stopping (a first period discovered just as one girl was about to be strip-searched by the Nazis). The contributors include well-known women writers (Meg Cabot, Erica Jong, Gloria Steinem, Cecily von Ziegesar), alongside today's teens. And while the authors differ in race, faith, or cultural background, their stories share a common bond: they are all accessible, deeply honest, and highly informative. Whatever a girl experiences or expects, she'll find stories that speak to her thoughts and feelings.Ultimately, MY LITTLE READ BOOK is more than a collection of stories. It is a call for a change in attitude, for a new way of seeing periods. In a time when the taboo around menstruation seems to be one of the few left standing, it makes a difficult subject easier to talk about, and helps girls feel proud instead of embarrassed or ashamed. By revealing what it feels like to undergo this experience first hand, and giving women the chance to explain their feelings in their own words, it aims to provide support, entertainment, and a starting point for discussion for mothers and daughters everywhere. It is a book every girl should have. Period.