Between You and Me in bulk

Between You and Me · Boys 10–14

The conversation most Indian boys never get — written down, so somebody finally has it.

Girls are usually told something, eventually, by someone. Boys are very often told nothing at all, and assemble the whole picture from a phone and a group chat. This is three books that say the ordinary, unembarrassed truth out loud — including the parts an adult finds hardest to start.

What this actually is

Three full-colour books, 104 pages across three books, printed at ISO B5 — a proper book size, not a pamphlet. Roughly sixty per cent explanation and forty per cent blank space , because this is a book he writes in . There are checklists to tick, trackers to fill, questions to answer and a page to sign and date.

That is the whole design idea. A book that is read once gets read once. A book with his own handwriting in it gets kept — and gets picked up again on the day it is actually needed.

•3 books · full colour throughout · ISO B5 (176 × 250 mm)

•130gsm art paper interior, 300gsm matte-laminated cover

•Roughly 60% explanation, 40% space to write

•A red-flag page in every book — including the one about pain that needs a doctor today

•Two parent pages in each of the three books

•Helpline printed in every book: 1098, and 112

The three books

Not three reading levels — three subjects at one age . He can open Book 2 the week he needs it without finishing Book 1 first.

Book 1

My Body Is Changing

Everything that’s starting

Every one of these has a reason, and none of them is a problem.

What’s starting

•Everybody changes — at a different time each

•Head to toe: what actually changes

•Suddenly taller, suddenly clumsy

•Your voice breaking — why, and that it passes

•Sweat and smell — where boys actually get teased

•Skin and spots

Why it happens

•Hormones, in plain words

•A calm, correctly-named diagram

•Why did my friend start two years ago?

•What people say vs what’s true

•Girls are changing too

•Sleep, food, moving — no protein or gym talk

Taking care

•My growth chart — the page he will actually fill in

•My own timeline: first voice crack, first shave

•A daily routine, six steps

•Clothes that fit, and growing out of things

•Who can I ask? — father, uncle, brother, coach, doctor

•Me, this year — signed and dated

Book 2

The Things Nobody Explains

The chapter that got skipped

None of this makes you strange. It makes you thirteen.

The things nobody says

•What’s actually happening, in five sentences

•Erections — why they happen at random, meaningless times

•Wet dreams — the page this book exists for, and it comes early

•The myths he has already been told, answered plainly

•Bodies are not a ranking — it is not a league table

Keeping clean and well

•Washing, including the part nobody explains to him

•Clothes, socks and shoes — the unglamorous page that prevents the teasing

•The changing room: being looked at, and looking

•What’s in my bag — what makes a bad day survivable

•When something hurts — and the pain that means a doctor today

Looking after yourself

•Why you’re tired all the time — sleep need goes up, not down

•A two-week sleep and habits tracker