This book is a perfect book to give to preteens and teens which will help them understand consent in all of its forms (both sexual and non-sexual).

It feels mature but isn't afraid to crack jokes, so there's a nice balance to the tone of the book.

I wish there were some activities to go along with the information, but outside of that, I thought it was pretty darn perfect. Extremely digestible for anyone of any age.

I appreciate the ability to send a rating and review for this title. Consent, especially for children, is of the utmost importance.

*received for free from netgalley for honest review* great and important book for kids and a great book to read with kids as well

Some of the graphics are difficult to read, but overall the design of the book will attract readers and keep them engaged as they read about this important topic.

5/5 stars everyone needs to read this book. It is a great way to begin the subject of consent and consent is important. WE need to be teaching this to the children and young people now as soon as we can and this book is a fantastic resource for that.

This is a great book about consent from Justin Hancock, who is behind the sex education website Bish UK. I really like how it doesn't just deal with consent in terms of sex, but puts sexual consent into context as just one of many ways consent is important. It also gives a brief overview of how various "isms" (such as sexism, racism and homophobia) affect people's lives and choices. It's well laid out and the artwork is really great. It has a light hearted tone throughout (with a lot of cheesy pizza jokes), but without making light of serious topics.

Thank you NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Children's Books for the digital advance reading copy of this book.

This book has a lot of great information and explains consent in an easy to understand format with fun analogies like the pizza shop (you will understand this when you read it).

I would have given this book a higher score but the printing on the colored backgrounds is really hard to read even if you aren't color blind. My husband walked in while I was reading this book on the computer and he nearly puked. In case you couldn't guess he is color blind and having printing on a colored background, and multiples colors featured so prominently on each page, is torture to his eyes.

I want to express my gratitude to Netgalley and Frances Lincoln Children's Books for giving me the chance to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

Something in the title, cover and synopsis said to me that this could be an amazing reading and it was.

At the beggining, I thought that the book was about sex, an aproximation to young people without more expectations. Yet, I started reading and this was totally different.

Justin Hancock is a wonderful writer, in addition it has a magic and close way to talk about consent, besides "serious" topics. This book not only has with sex as reference, but also it talking about all the situations that you can find day a day in with you have to take a decision.

Additionally the text has a perfect companion, the illustrations. Fuchsia Macaree choosed splendidly the drawings to all the pages.

I thought that it is an awesome reading to all the ages, maybe it could have a huge impact on teens (14 and above).

To sum up, a perfect and modern reading to open your mind, as well as know more about something esencial, consent.

Consent is empowering! And so is this awesome, cute, little book about it. It’s a necessary primer on consent in our everyday lives - so clear that I wish schools would make it a compulsory read! It explains everything from what a ‘Should Story’ is, how more choice equals more consent, how to listen to ourselves, the importance of not hurting others with those choices, and how to hear and say ‘no’. It’s all about maximizing everyone’s agency, not just your own, and will help you empathetically coexist with other people - and what is life, but a series of activities we take part in mostly together? This book is all about how to be brave and confident in our freedom, choices, and agency. It’s chock-full of real-life scenarios to help put consent more easily into practice (because sometimes this stuff is hard to do in real life!), like how to pick out a chocolate bar for yourself, or how to order a pizza with someone that you’ll both enjoy - it’s not just all about sex, it’s actually a lot about pizza. It’s packed with information in a good way, but doesn’t feel too dense, and the fun illustrations are friendly, approachable, and normalize the topic. After reading this, you’re totally going to want to go make the world a better place - one choice at a time!

This is an informative book on consent in a wide variety of areas for young adults. It presents consent in all sorts of situations, not just in romantic relationships and encourages the reader to communicate and figure out what they want. However, the tone didn't work for me as it was a little wishy washy and the book is a bit long and drawn out. I think in some ways this confuses the discussion of consent. I also like that it encourages the reader to consider consent in all aspects of their life. Another thing I really liked that was reiterated was that the absence of no is not yes. Overall, this provides a lot of food for thought about consent, and how we communicate in relationships.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for providing this ARC.

Important stuff!

Can We Talk About Consent? is a mutli-chapter guide to consent and agency loaded with bright illustrations. The guide talks about consent generally AND consent around sex. the book is full of tips about how to ask someone for consent and also how to say no AND (also very important) what to do if you tell someone no and they don't listen to you.

I think it is very important to teach kids about consent starting at a young age. This book is targeted at people high school aged and older. It is a little dense for the younger set, but you can definitely read it and pull out some important stuff to share with younger kids. That is what I plan to do! My kids are in elementary school and I plan to discuss the asking and saying no tips with them. Also, accepting a no from someone else without continuing to pester them about it.

This is a great book for young and old on understanding consent. It’s not just about sex, but everything from the day to day houses we are all faced with, to the more serious topics about relationships. Etc.

I love how the book emphasizes that an “ absence of a No, doesn’t mean yes”

I received a digital copy of this through Netgalley. The book begins with demonstrating consent via the book presenting the reader the option to keep reading or stop reading the book

Then explains the author and his credentials for writing a book about consent. It describes the book as not a sex book <strong>but a book about sex and consent.</strong> It presents consent in more than just sexual situations.

It is a great, colorful book about sex and consent -- consent even outside of sex. There is no religious undertones to this work. It covers racism, classism, transphobia/homophobia, ableism, etc.

Great for Tweens and Teens. Not an appropriate text for anyone younger due to amount of text and how it is presented to readers. It reads as if it's meant for tweens/teens.

This book is awesome. Hands down. Ideally I would say middle school and up for age range.

It is more than just consent with regards to sex. There is so much more from greeting to pizza to movies to “isms” and beyond. There is so much education within this book that it can feel overwhelming. But the authors make it so easy to take a break from reading. In fact they encourage breaks throughout or skipping parts. They are very flexible and this serves as more of a guide and resource than a beginning to end type of read.

I encourage parents to read this to help educate their children. I love the illustrations for this one and the glossary on the end. I loved how the book provides advice and ideas to try to help navigate the world of consent. I love how they provide ideas for how to avoid or address the awkwardness of consent talks. The scale they provide as well is a neat tool to use.

As an educator, this book should be in every school.

It's short, thought-provoking, and very informative - I feel like I've learned a lot while reading this book. The topics presented can feel hard to tackle in a face-to-face conversation. Instead, here they are presented in a simple way, with fun analogies and a bit of humor to keep you entertained. The author somehow manages to make the book appealing to a broader audience than his target one. I would recommend this book to anyone.

This book doesn't quite feel like it was made for those 14 and older. With the illustrations and some of the contents such as making a pizza. With knowing several high schoolers, it doesn't seem like a book that they would pick up on their own. The pictures, to me, look like those that would be in a picture book for elementary schoolers.. This isn't necessarily a bad thing but with the book being aimed at young adults it doesn't seem to work for me.

I thought the information in the book was really good and liked how it went into detail about consenting for different things beyond sex. I also liked how it touched on racism and sexism. I liked that there was a glossary at the end as well as resources to find more information.

With that being said, it makes me wonder if you can find this same information online? As I said before, great information but with this information so accessible, perhaps the book should have been made for a younger audience (where the illustrations would fit the age) as those children don't have as much access to online resources.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

Wow! What a powerful, educational book! This needs to be read by all people, and taught in schools.

The book covered so many more important topics not just consent.

I loved the illustrations and also the analogies using pizza and movies - I think this kept the book lighthearted despite the topics being of a very serious important nature, which I think will help younger readers to engage.

Definitely recommend!

I enjoyed reading this book. The version I received has pictures and artwork along with the text so I enjoyed that aspect of reading. This book broke down how to get consent, what to watch for, and how to define consent. I recommend this for college students, the working class, teenagers, and even couples. No one is exempt of this information and it is a topic that is not widely discussed.

Can We Talk About Consent is about an important topic that we as a society need to talk more about. This book is marked as children's nonfiction, but it's pretty detailed. I'd suggest it for middle school students, not elementary.

I received an electronic ARC from Quarto Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Children's Books through NetGalley.
An all in one guide to explaining consent and agency and why it's important to know about both. Hancock uses clear analogies to define terms and explain choices. Though this is written for middle school and young adults, adults of all ages would benefit from a review of this information.
The pizza and movie analogies work because they provide humor to the underlying seriousness of the actual topics being covered. The shorter chapter style lets readers move through the material quickly and revisit the topics as needed.
I appreciate that Hancock covers far broader topics than sexual consent. Sex is a critical consent/choice/agency area but it is not the only place young people need to feel empowered to state their choices and feel safe in doing so.
One I recommend every family purchase to inspire dialogue on these critical topics.