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Books
The Go Around Dollar
Author: Barbara Johnston Adams
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses various attributes of money.
Pigs Will be Pigs
Author: Amy Axelrod
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of choices, saving, and spending.
Round and Round the Money Goes
Authors: Melvin and Gilda Berger
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the origins of money and barter.
The Berenstain Bears' Get the Gimmes
Author: Stan and Jan Berenstain
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of choices and shopping.
The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze
Author: Stan and Jan Berenstain
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of collecting and money.
The Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money
Author: Stan and Jan Berenstain
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of saving and spending.
Better Than a Lemonade Stand? Small Business Ideas for Kids
Author: Daryl Bernstein
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Discusses the concept of entrepreneurship.
Matilda the Moocher
Author: Diana Cain Bluthenthal
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of borrowing, collateral, and lending.
Doggone Lemonade Stand
Author: Judy Bradbury
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of income, savings, and spending.
Annie's Pet
Author: B. Brenner
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of earnings, savings, and opportunity cost.
Arthur's Pet Business
Author: Marc Brown
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concept of starting a business.
Arthur's TV Trouble
Author: Marc Brown
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of advertising and choices.
A Day's Work
Author: Eve Bunting
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of immigration and work.
The Purse
Author: Kathy Caple
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of earning and spending.
Sam and the Lucky Money
Author: Karen Chinn
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of expectations and shopping.
Count Your Money With the Polk Street School
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of money and saving.
The Big Buck Adventure
Author: Shelley Gill and Deborah Tobola
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concept of choices and spending.
Dollar for Penny
Arthur: Julie Glass
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of work and work ethic.
Arthur's Funny Money
Author: Lillian Hoban
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concept of starting a business.
Glo Goes Shopping
Author: Cheryl Willis Hudson
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of choices, decision making, and spending.
The Great Pet Sale
Author: Mick Inkpen
Reading Level: 4-8
Discusses the concepts of choice, price, and spending.
Four Dollars and Fifty Cents
Author: Eric A. Kimmel
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of credit and debt.
On Market Street
Author: Arnold Lobel
Reading Level: 4-8
Discusses the concepts of a market and exchange.
Beatrice's Goat
Author: Page McBrier
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of earnings, savings and opportunity cost.
I Shop With My Daddy
Author: Grace MacCarone
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of decision making, goods, and spending.
The Story of Money
Author: Betsy Maestro
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the forms of money and its use.
Just Shopping with Mom
Author: Mercer Mayer
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses wants and needs and the necessity of choice.
Yard Sale
Author: Mitra Modarressi
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of advertising and work ethic.
My Rows and Piles of Coins
Author: Tololwa M. Mollel
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of income, saving, and sharing.
The Penny Pot
Author: Stuart Murphy
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concept of counting, gifting, and savings.
Chicken Sunday
Author: Patricia Polacco
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concept of entrepreneurship.
The Big Green Pocketbook
Author: Candice Ransom
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concept of shopping and values.
Curious George Takes a Job
Author: H.A. Rey
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of work and responsibility.
The Case of the Shrunken Allowance
Author: Joanne Rocklin
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of income, savings, and spending.
How Much Is That Guinea Pig in the Window?
Author: Joanne Rocklin
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concept of choices and saving.
Career Day
Author: Ann Rockwell
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of careers and working.
Busy Workers
Author Richard Scarry
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of careers, jobs, and work.
What do People Do All Day
Author Richard Scarry
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of careers, jobs, and work.
A Piano for Julie
Author: Eleanor Schick
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of goals and saving.
Sheep in a Shop
Author: Nancy Shaw
Reading Level: Baby - Preschool
Discusses the concepts of decision making, saving, and spending.
Max's Money
Author: Teddy Slater
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concept of borrowing.
Yard Sale
Author: James Stevenson
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of advertising and work ethic.
How Much is that Doggie in the Window
Author: Iza Trapani
Reading Level: Baby - Preschool
Discusses the concepts of choice, saving, and spending.
How Much Is a Million?
Author: David Schwartz
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concept of a million.
If You Made a Million
Author: David Schwartz
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concept of a making a million dollars.
The Lemonade Stand
Author: Marcia Vaughan
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of advertising and entrepreneurship.
Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday
Author: Judith Viorst
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discuss the concept of money management, needs, and wants.
Bunny Money
Author: Rosemary Wells
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of consumptions, goods and services and spending.
Going to Town
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Reading Level: Baby - Pre-school
Discusses the concept of choices and shopping.
A Chair for Mother
Author: Vera Williams
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of choices, gifting and saving.
Something Special for Me
Author: Vera Williams
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of choices, gifting, and saving.
Lucky the Golden Goose
Author: John D. Wren
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of interest saving, and spending.
Something for Sara
Author: Sandra Ziegler
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of gifting, saving, and spending.
How the Second Grade Got $8,205.50 to Visit the Statue of Liberty
Author: Nathan Zimelman
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Discusses the concepts of goals and savings.