What Makes a Baby

Geared to readers from preschool to age eight, What Makes a Baby is a book for every kind of family and every kind of kid. It is a 21st century children’s picture book about conception, gestation and birth, which reflects the reality of the modern era by being inclusive of all kinds of kids, adults, and families – regardless of how many people were involved, their orientation, gender and other identity, or family composition. Just as important, the story doesn’t gender people or body parts, so people can apply their own family experience to the text.

Author Biography

Raised by a children’s librarian and a sex therapist, CORY SILVERBERGgrew up to be a sexuality educator and writer.He received his Masters of Education from the University of Toronto, and was a founding member of the Come As You Are Co-operative. He teaches across North America on topics including sexual communication, sexuality and disability, technology, access, and inclusion. Cory is the Sexuality Guide for About.com and the co-author of The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability with Miriam Kaufman and Fran Odette.What Makes a Baby is the first book in a series of kid’s books Cory is writing for Seven Stories Press about sexuality, sexual health, and gender.He has eight nephews and nieces, all of whom know where babies come from.

FIONA SMYTH is a Toronto-based painter, illustrator, and cartoonist. Her first graphic novel, The Never Weres, was published by Annick Press in 2011. Fiona’s comic Cheez was published inExclaim! magazine for almost ten years, and her comic Fazoozwas in Vice for eight years. Fiona teaches illustration and comics at OCAD U in Toronto.