Essential Life Skills for Boys

SCOTT TODNEM has been teaching health education at the middle school level since 2001 and was named the 2019 National Health Teacher of the Year. He uses his platforms to promote cultural diversity, gender inclusivity, mental health awareness, and suicide prevention. He is also the author of Growing Up Great! The Ultimate Puberty Book for Boys and Sex Education: A Parent’s Guide. Scott hosts a YouTube channel and a podcast with his students, both of which can be found at lifeisthefuture.com. He currently resides in Illinois with his family, where he enjoys reading, record collecting, and watching great movies.

MARTHA SUE COURSEY is a San Francisco–based illustrator, type designer, and artist. She grew up as the only child of metalwork artists in a house they built on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, where books and desert creatures were some of her best friends. She holds a BFA in painting from California College of the Arts and a postgraduate certificate from Type West. When she’s not drawing, she’s taking care of too many plants or walking the dog.