Books to help you with body image
Find books to help children and young adults cope with body image.
Banish your body image thief, by Kate Collins-Donelly
The body image thief is a sneaky character - if you're not careful, he'll steal away all your positive feelings about your body from your 'Body Image Vault', leaving only the negative ones behind. How can you banish him? Fortify your vault with positive self-beliefs so he can't break in! This imaginative workbook contains activities and strategies to help you build up positive thoughts, feelings and beliefs about your body.
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Tyranny - I keep you thin, by Lesley Farfield
One day, horrified by her reflection in the mirror, Anna makes a life-changing decision - that food is the enemy. Her obsession with being thin and beautiful will now dominate her every waking and sleeping hour.
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Can I tell you about eating disorders?, by Lucy Watson and Fiona Field
Meet Alice - a teenage girl with anorexia nervosa. Alice invites readers to learn about anorexia nervosa and how it makes her see herself differently from how other people see her. She also introduces readers to Beth who has bulimia nervosa, Sam who has selective eating problems, Francesca who has functional dysphagia and Freddie who has food avoidance emotional disorder. They all explain why they find food difficult and how their eating disorders are different.