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The Kid’s Guide to Money: Earning It, Saving It, Spending It, Growing It, Sharing It (Scholastic Reference)

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:08:10 +0000

In The Kid's Guide to Money: Earning It, Saving It, Spending It, Growing It, Sharing It, author Steve Otfinoski achieves a complicated feat: explaining to kids (ages 9 through 12) the fundamentals of how to thrive in the American economy. Otfinoski uses an easy, informative tone, and focuses on the young entrepreneur who wants to earn money. The author promotes the joys of work, finding a job or building a business, developing advertising, and so on. Later chapters provide explanations of banks, budgets, careful consumerism, taxes, investments, and, finally, charitable donations. Throughout, Otfinoski sprinkles interesting sidebars (called Money Moment and Kid Cents) featuring odd facts about money and quotes from kids. Humorous drawings liven up the chapters, and the appendices include a detailed glossary. Cheers to Otfinoski for making what is often a dry, boring subject a fascinating opportunity for learning and fun. --Ericka Lutz

Growing Up Well – Piggy Banks to Money Markets: A Kid’s Video Guide to Dollars and Sense

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:25:57 +0000

In this upbeat primer on money, insightful vignettes involving four kids offer thought-provoking lessons in earning, investing, and spending. Dian starts a weekend business playing piano at childrens' parties; Adam holds a garage sale so he can invest in baseball cards; little Elizabeth helps her mom with gardening; and TJ recruits a buddy to run his lemonade stand. While the premises sound simple enough, each child encounters an imaginative hitch along the way, inviting plenty of discussion and words of wisdom. Other helpful bits include a glance at how and where U.S. bills and coins are made, materials other cultures use for money, and an unbiased discussion of how kids use their money (consequences included). Banking, checking, credit card explanations--illustrated via cartoon computer graphics--might whiz right by the 5- to 8-year-olds, and some of the song-and-dance routines might lose the 9- to 12-year-olds, but the payoff in knowledge gained will easily outweigh any temporary losses of attention. The tape runs about 27 minutes. --Liane Thomas

Growing Money: A Complete Investing Guide for Kids (Reissue)

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:11:19 +0000

Growing Money answers all these questions and more: â�¢ How do you read the stock pages? â�¢ What's the difference between stocks and bonds? â�¢ Is there an actual stock market? â�¢ Why do stocks go up and down? â�¢ How can I keep track of investments? â�¢ What's a dividend? â�¢ Can kids invest? Never before has the world of finance been so much part of kids' daily lives. Today there are even kid-friendly mutual funds and many math classes have student investing clubs. It's clear that youngsters want to know everything about mioneyâ��especially how to make grow! Growing Money will show them to do just that with easy information about savings accounts, bonds, stocks, and mutual funds; fun quizzes that reveal young investor's risk tolerance; and wild facts of success and failure, each with a lesson to impart. Best of all, Growing Money gives readers their own fund of imaginary dollars to invest, along with suggestions for selecting companies that are compatible with their values, tips for reading stock pages, and fill-in charts to trace their earnings and losses. The fundamentals of money management become child's play with this savvy, responsible guide for young consumers!

Growing Up Well – Piggy Banks to Money Markets: A Kid’s Video Guide to Dollars and Sense [VHS]

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:47:24 +0000