Talking About Your Weight

April 1, 2010
Grades 4-7 This title in the Healthy Living series offers both good information and interesting insights about weight issues and does so without making readers feel self-conscious. The book begins with an awareness that people come in all shapes and sizes and explains that although being overweight can mean different things, there are specific ways to measure obesity. The focus here is on balance and solutions: how to make better food choices, ways to incorporate exercise into everyday life, and how to handle problems that come up when one is not in charge of cooking or selecting meals. Eating disorders are covered in a two-page spread but are not sensationalized. The highly visual formatfull of color photographs, cartoon characters, charts, games, and mapsis a bit crowded at times but also very inviting. Even browsers will learn a lot about the right and wrong ways to think about eating. A 15-point eating plan, a glossary, and a short list of Web sites are appended.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2010, American Library Association.)