My Fantastic Fieldtrip: Junior Discovers Saving

Life Lessons with Junior

by Dave Ramsey, Marshall Ramsey (Illustrator)

The Life Lessons with Junior series is a four book series created to teach basic principles about money and, yes, life to children of all ages. From working and saving, to giving and spending, these wonderful stories will teach real life 'stuff' and the stories are so fun, children won't even know they're learning. The final of four books in the Life Lessons with Junior series teaches children the value of saving. My Fantastic Fieldtrip will teach children the benefits of planning ahead for the future. Each book in the Life Lessons with Junior series has practical tips for parents to use as they teach their children these life-changing principles.

Genres: Money, Childrens, Picture Books

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Dave Ramsey is America’s trusted voice on money and business. He’s a #1 National bestselling author and host of The Ramsey Show, heard by more than 18 million listeners each week. Dave’s eight national bestselling books include The Total Money Makeover, Baby Steps Millionaires, and EntreLeadership. Since 1992, Dave has helped people take control of their money, build wealth, and enhance their lives. He also serves as CEO of Ramsey Solutions.

Reviews

[Jodi]

I read this series to my kids when they were younger and while I appreciate the general lessons, I didn't see Ramsey's spiritualization of wealth hoarding so clearly at the time.

[Dolly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I purchased this book for our oldest daughter for her birthday. It's pretty much a kid's version of Dave Ramsey's The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness and reinfoces the concept of using envelopes to separate cash into different categories for saving, spending and giving. It's a good way to teach children to start budgeting and using money wisely and it reinforces what we already teach our children to do.

The plot in this book isn't nearly as interesting as some of the others in the Life Lessons With Junior series, but our girls liked it. And I thought it was humorous that Principal Woodburn looked an awful lot like Mr. Ramsey. We enjoyed reading this book together and now our daughter wants to donate this book to the library. Yay!

[Dharia Scarab · Rating 3 out of 5]

My love of reading started when i was young, and it gives me immense pleasure to provide books to Spread the Word Nevada, an organization that passes them on to children in the community. They are a terrific organization supporting an important cause. If your local I encourage you to check them out. For those living further a field, look in your own community, their may already be a similar program in place. And if not, you can always help start one.

http://spreadthewordnevada.org/

Myself, I go out on the weekends and
shop thrift store and bulk book lots to rescue books and donate them. Sometimes I'll find a book I remember reading when I was young and will read it again before passing it on.

I don't rate these books using my normal scale, instead I give most of them three stars. This isn't a Criticism of the book, simply my way of rating them as good for children.

[Darrin Dickey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another of my favorite Dave Ramsey books. It teaches children the importance of saving rather than spending all of the money that comes into your hands. Again, I'm not impartial about this book. I was heavily involved in it's production and one of the characters was named after my first child and was drawn to resemble me (poor guy).

[Kim Holdiman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Used this for the kids class we held while the grown ups went through FPU. They loved it!

[Birdie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I like Dave Ramsey a lot, but he is not a children's book writer.

[M. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great advice for young and old alike! Not a fairy take but useful information to grow on.