Updated 2018-2019 Reading Makes Cent$ K-5 Children’s Literature Featuring Strong Economic Content Title Author Copyright & Publisher Key Concepts Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday Viorst, Judith 1978-Aladdin Saving, Spending, Good & Services K-3 Apples to Oregon Hopkins, Deborah 2004 – Aladdin Scarcity, Choice, Opportunity Cost, Risk, Resources 1-4 Arthur’s Pet Business Brown, Marc 1990 – Little & Co. Entrepreneurship, Saving, Goods and Services K-2 Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade Sweet, Melissa 2011- Houghton Mifflin Entrepreneurship Specialization Productive Resources K-5 Beatrice’s Goat McBrier, Page 2001- Simon & Schuster Investment, Scarcity, Productive Resources K-4 Benny’s Pennies Brisson, Pat 1993- Dell Yearling Consumer, Producer, Trade, Currency, Goods PK-2 The Berenstain Bears’ Dollars and Sense Berenstain, Jan & Stan 2001 – Ransom House Money, Saving, Checks PK-2 The Berenstain Trouble with Money Berenstain, Jan & Stan 1983 – Ransom House Personal Finance, Money, Choices PK-2 Billy Sure, Kid Entrepreneur Vol. 1 Sharpe, Luke 2015- Simon & Schuster Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Money, Choices, Productive Resources, Decision-making 3-6 Blackout John 2011-Hyperion Decision-making, Opportunity Cost, Sunk Cost K-3 Brody Borrows Money Bullard, Lisa 2014 – Millbrook Press Money, Borrowing, Saving PK-2 Bunny Money Wells, Rosemary 2000- Viking Penguin Money, Savings, Goods, Interest K-2 Caterina and the Lemonade Stand Kono, Erin Eitter 2014 - Dial Entrepreneurship, Marketing, K-2 A Chair for My Mother Williams, Vera 1982- Harper Collins Choices, Saving, Opportunity Cost K-3 Charlie Jackson’s to Making Money 2014 - Roaring Book Press Entrepreneurship, Earning, Saving, Wants, Decision Making 4-7 Cleo Edison Oliver: Playground Millionaire Frazier, Sundee 2016 - Scholastic Entrepreneurship, Decision Making, Costs & Benefits 3-6
The Lemonade War Davies, Jacqueline 2007- Houghton Mifflin Entrepreneurship, Profit, Savings, Productive Resources 3-5 Lucky Beans Birtha, Becky 2010- Albert Whitman Scarcity, Productive Resources 2-4 Lulu Walks the Dogs Viorst, Judith 2014 – Atheneum Wants, Earning, Choices 2-5 Lunch Money Clements, Andrew 2007 – Simon & Schuster Entrepreneurship, Profit, Earning, Saving, Decision Making 4-7 M is for Money: An Economics Alphabet Bank Shoulders Debbie & Michael 2015 – Sleeping Bear Economic and Personal Finance Concepts 2-5 Mama Panya’s Pancakes Chamberlain, Mary 2005- Barefoot Books Scarcity, Production, Interdependence, Resources, Resources, Markets K-3 Money: A Wealth of Facts, Photos, and Fun! Furgang, Kathy & Hiebert, Fred 2013- National Geographic Informational Text 4 - 7 Money: Let’s Do Math Pistoia, Sara 2017 - AV2 (Weigl) Money, Savings, Math Computation K-2 Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money Curtis, Christopher Paul 2005 – Dell Yearling Math, 4-6 My Rows and Piles of Coins Tololwa Mollel 1999- Saving, Goods and Services, Capital Resources, Markets 2-5 Olivia Opens a Lemonade Stand Einhorn, Kama 2010 – Simon & Schuster Entrepreneurship, Competition PK-2 Once Upon a Dime: A Math Adventure Allen, Nancy Kelly 1999 - Charlesbridge Money Calculations, Productive Resources K-3 One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Difference Milway, Katie Smith 2008- Kids Can Press Savings, Investing Scarcity, Productive Resources K-5 Payback on Poplar Lane Mincks, Margaret 2018 – Viking Books for Young Readers Scarcity, Jobs, Choices, Entrepreneurship, Money 3-6 The Penny Pot Murphy, Stuart J. 1998 – HarperCollins Coins, Counting K-3 the Lamplighter Bartone, Elisa 1997– HarperCollins Jobs, Choices, Scarcity K-3 Pigs Will be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money Axelrod, Amy 1994 - Aladdin Money, Coins, Spending, Choices K-3 Potato: A Tale From the Great Depression Lied, Kate 1997-National Geographic Society Scarcity, Money, Bartering K-2 Rock, Brock and the Saving Sock Sheila Bair 2006- Albert Whitman & Co. Saving, Spending, Compound Interest, 2-5