"Please read me a story," kids often ask. Parents who say yes know that reading to their children helps them in many ways and opens up the opportunity to talk about or teach important ideas. Choose one of these books and print our one-page parent Q&A to go with it. You'll be able to have a conversation with your children about saving, spending, savings goals, making careful decisions, and many other personal finance and economics concepts that relate to their everyday lives.
Teachers: Lesson plans are included for most of the Q&A books.
Concepts: human resources, income, saving, and savings goal.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
More about the A Chair for My Mother Q&A»
Concepts: opportunity cost, saving, savings goal, and spending.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
More about the Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday Q&A»
Concepts: goods, employee, employer, income, installment plan, job, money, and services.
For children 8 to 11 years old.
More about the Because of Winn-Dixie Q&A»
Concepts: choice, scarcity, and wants.
For children 3 to 7 years old.
More about the Betty Bunny Wants Everything Q&A»
Concepts: saving, savings goal, and spending.
For children 4 to 7 years old.
More about the Bunny Money Q&A»
Concepts: dividend, entrepreneur, investor, profit, revenue, risk, and tax.
For children 8 to 11 years old.
More about the Isabel's Car Wash Q&A»
Concepts: saving, savings goal, bank, and income.
For children 3 to 7 years old.
More about the Just Saving My Money Q&A»
Concepts: goods, services, capital resources, human resources, intermediate goods, and natural resources.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
More about the Little Nino's Pizzeria Q&A»
Concepts: goods, saving, and spending.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
More about the Money, Money, Honey Bunny! Q&A»
Concepts: barter, characteristics of money, interest, and money.
For children 7 to 10 years old.
More about the One Cent, Two Cents, Old Cent, New Cent: All About Money Q&A»
Concepts: entrepreneur, loan, and saving.
For children 8 to 10 years old.
More about the One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference Q&A»
Concepts: mortgage, note, and collateral.
For children 10 to 13 years old.
More about the Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Q&A»
Concepts: bartering, coincidence of wants, exchange, and money.
For children 8 to 10 years old.
More about the Saturday Sancocho Q&A»
Concepts: barter, goods, and services.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
More about the Sheep in a Shop Q&A»
Concepts: human capital, human resources, productivity, and physical capital.
For children 7 to 10 years old.
More about the Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building Q&A»
Concepts: choice and opportunity cost.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
More about the Something from Nothing Q&A»
Concepts: saving, savings, and opportunity cost.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
More about the Something Special for Me Q&A»
Concepts: benefits, capital resources, choices, decisionmaking, human capital, human resources, income, labor, natural resources, and property rights.
For children 8 to 12 years old.
More about the Strawberry Girl Q&A»
Concepts: consumers, goods, price, and sellers.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
More about The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze Q&A»
Concepts: bank, income, interest, saving, and spending.
For children 8 to 10 years old.
More about The Case of the Shrunken Allowance Q&A»
Concepts: advertising, consumers, goods, and services.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
More about The Have a Good Day Cafe Q&A»
Concepts: opportunity cost, saving, savings goal, and savings plan.
For children 5 to 7 years old.
More about The Pickle Patch Bathtub Q&A»
Concepts: natural resources, human resources, capital resources, and intermediate goods.
For children 8 to 10 years old.
More about The Tortilla Factory Q&A»
Concepts: bank failure, opportunity cost, saving, savings goal, and segregation.
For children 7 to 10 years old.
More about the Uncle Jed's Barbershop Q&A»
Concepts: saving and spending.
For children 5 to 8 years old.
More about the You Can't Buy a Dinosaur With a Dime Q&A»
Econ Lowdown resources can help your Boy Scout earn the Personal Management merit badge, one of the requirements to become an Eagle Scout. Several Econ Lowdown video segments are included in the online booklet for Scouts to earn the Personal Management merit badge.
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