A Girl’s Guide to Being Fearless Written by Andy Cope. Reviewed by Margaret, Age 12

A Girl’s Guide to Being Fearless by Suzie Lavington and Dr Andy Cope is a book designed to build positive self-esteem in teenage girls.

This is a non-fiction book, and is very enjoyable to read. It involves chapters on things including how to cope with bullying, how to keep a positive attitude about life and how to use your phone, tablet or other electronic devices responsibly.

The book addresses difficult issues, and gives you ways to pull through them and accept that they’re another part of life. It is understanding about difficult times in life, and aims to help you carry on living to be the best you canIt is understanding about difficult times in life, and aims to help you carry on living to be the best you can.

I enjoyed this book because it is put together to provide a different way of seeing things, and also gives good advice that you might never have thought to try. It involves science behind the things it suggests and is written in a way that is easy to understand.

The book is fun to read, involving boxes containing facts and sayings that help to explain points. Humour is also a major part of the book, with certain parts purpose-made to be funny. The images throughout the book are fun sketches that are either there to mark the beginning of a chapter or to illustrate a point.

Suzie Lavington is a mother, and has experienced many of the things that are addressed in the book, and can compare older children’s self-esteem to younger children’s self-esteem well, using comparisons throughout the book

Dr Andy Cope provides quotations through the book, and as a scientist, is able toprovide scientific and accurate predictions of a growing girl’s emotions. This is especially valid in the book, as it allows us to prepare for the most likely ups and downs we will face as we grow.

I would recommend this book for girls aged eleven to sixteen, but older and younger people can enjoy it too.