The #1 best-selling, award-winning guide to getting your period for the first time, from 'Dolly Doctor' Dr Melissa Kang and journalist Yumi Stynes (Ladies, We Need to Talk).

Getting your period for the first time can be mortifying, weird and messy – and asking questions about it can feel even worse. But it doesn’t have to be like that!

This award-winning, beloved book for pre-teens and teens is packed with honest advice on all the things you need to know: from what cramps feel like to whether you can feel it coming out, to what you should do if your pad leaks onto your clothes. With case studies, first-person accounts and questions from real teens (and answers from real experts – us!), Welcome to Your Period has all the info you need to manage your period like a boss.

⭐ WINNER: 2020 ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children ⭐
⭐ New York Public Library's Top 50 Books of 2021 ⭐
⭐ LONGLISTED: 2020 ABDA Best Designed Children's Non-Fiction ⭐

Read the whole Welcome To series by Dr Melissa Kang and Yumi Stynes:

• Welcome to Your Period: Your easy, no-silly-questions guide to handling it like a boss
• Welcome to Your Boobs: Your easy, no-silly-questions guide to your breast friends
• Welcome to Consent: How to say no, when to say yes and everything in between
• Welcome to Sex: Your no-silly-questions guide to sexuality, pleasure and figuring it out​