The Kid's Guide to Money: Earning It, Saving It, Spending It, Growing It, Sharing It

by Steven Otfinoski

An introduction to money management for young readers covers such areas as saving for large purchases, following the stock market, understanding cumulative value, avoiding rip-offs, and selecting a charity. Simultaneous.

Genres: Money, Childrens, Parenting

128 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1996

Reviews

[James Weakley · Rating 5 out of 5]

A little dated but a good resource for young people.

[Liam Franco · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book The Kid's Guide to Money by Steve Otfinoski is a very good book for parents to give to there children. This book introduces money in a way that kids can understand it clearly. It will teach them how to save money, conserve it, and spend it. The book also teaches kids about ways they can make more money. The writing in the book was very clear and the author broke down the information very well so that the reader could understand it easily. This book was a fast read. I would recommend this book to all young readers because someday we will all have to learn how to manage our own money.

[Jenny · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was actually a really intriguing book. It teaches you how to save money and earn it at the same time. All you have to do is follow the instructions that the author gives you and wait a year and see your money grow! Although I really haven't tried out these strategies yet, I would like to start them pretty soon. And you can, too, if you pick and buy a share at the stock market or make a savings account and have the interest slowly rise. You'll see what I mean when you read this good read. There are various techniques for making your money grow so you won't be bored with them and be tempted to spend your savings on a new bike or that new iPod that just came out.

[Jeremy]

this book is a good book. its good for kids all ages. it teaches you about money.
this book teaches you different ways to make money. some of the ways are forming stands or businesses. it also tells you ways to spend your money the right way. it tells you about stocks which can be helpful for when you grow older and start dealing with them.
i found the ways in the book helpfull. i did try some of the things and they really worked. you should try some of the techniques and see how it works for you.
i encourage all readers my age or younger to read it. it can help you for the future.

[Caleb Sadler · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought the book the kids guide to Money was a good book. It told me how to earn money how to spend it and how to grow it and sharing it. So the first topic of the book was earning it told me different things to do to earn money. Second topic how to save it and it told me 50 different things how to save one way to save money is to get a piggy bank. 3topic is spending it is the best part of the book because you can bye things with the money you have.4topic growing it because you actually don't grow money it means you make a business or company. topic5 sharing it the worst one because some rich people share there money.

[Jeremy · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is a instructional book to tell people how and why to save money. It also talks about having banks accounts and making budgets so you can balance how much you spend to how much you get. The Kids Guide To Money was a very informal book. I think now that I've read this book I learned a couple of tricks to saving my money. I will definately use the techniques showed in the book later in my life. This book was very hard to pay attention to becasue it just telling people what to do and doesnt have descriptve language and a catchy plot, like other interesting books.

[Jeremy · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is really good on the fact that it tells you things that you should know about money; how to save it, spend it, and earn it. It educates kids in an easy manner so that they would know how to deal with money. I found this book kind of boring because I knew most of the things that it was talking about and it didnt really teach me anything new. I guess manybe a kis would learn more and also like this book more but I wont recomed this book to older kids because you most likely already know all the information in it and it will feel like a drag reading it.

[Yuwei · Rating 1 out of 5]

This books teachs you how to start a business, how to make money, how to save it and how to spend it. The language is very easy. It was written for a child to teach them how to use their money wisely. They introduced banks and other saving to kids. Their were many tips about using money. There were also many events in history that they talk about, that involves money. Aslo they give suggestion and other ideas from other young kids. There weren't any hard language. It is the basics of money.

[Brian · Rating 4 out of 5]

OMG i didn't know this book was on goodreads, i read this in advisory like 50000000 times. This book was pretty cool because it was a bit humorous yet pretty correct about saving and spending money. Who knows maybe after i read this i can start to build my money instead of spending it and it might help me in the long run. I would recommend this book to anyone who doesn't feel like reading a REAL book because they are lazy. It's easy to finish and i guess helpful.

[Yan Bin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Children can save money at a early age and this book gives you advice and information not only for children. THis book is okay. It contains many opinions from children about what they view of earning, saving, spending, grwoing and sharing money.

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book taught me a lot about money. I don't think i'm going to use it but this is a good idea for the future thats ahead for everyone. i recommend this book to people who like medium books and not just boring and people who has a money problem and can't stop spending money.

[Joann]

This book reminded me of personal finance class. Ms. Lau taught us how to budget and save for the future. I think this book would help a lot of people because nowadays teenagers would just get credit cards and max it out without having any money to repay back.

[tj · Rating 4 out of 5]

good way to learn about money and thing you can do with money besides spending and savings