Money Money Money

by Ruth Belov Gross

Scholastic Book Services

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Born in Philadelphia and raised in Florida, Ruth Belov Gross has lived in New York City ever since graduating from the University of Miami in 1950. Although her first job out of college was as an editorial assistant for a children's publishing house, Gross never planned to write for children herself. Instead she went on to a successful career as a medical writer, where she became adept at thorough and meticulous research and translating complex medical information into nontechnical language.

Such skills served her well when she wrote her first children's book, What Do Animals Eat?, in 1970, and though she initially assumed she would return to medical writing, she never did. “I was finally doing what I had always wanted to do — without knowing that it was what I had always wanted to do.”

Since then, Gross has written numerous books for children, specializing in nonfiction and re-tellings of traditional tales. She welcomes questions and comments from children, and often uses their input to make her work more thorough. When they are not working, Gross and her husband enjoy cooking, gardening, and vacationing in Vermont, where they have a tiny A-frame house in the woods.

Reviews

[Kristiana Kincaid · Rating 4 out of 5]

MONEY MONEY MONEY is a dated book (it is almost 50 years old), and it presumes the reader is from the US. It does provide some interesting perspective on the history of money, what effects the change to metal currency had, and how it became standard to have state-backed coins and paper notes.

I have no idea what another reviewer is on about calling the book ‘propaganda.’ As I said, it’s dated — it exclusively talks about men as barterers and traders and architects of money (it even shows someone bartering a hatchet for a woman). But it’s part of showing history, talking through impact of a patriarchal society, and touching on other evils as part of the world, in order to help young people better understand it.

[Kest Schwartzman · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is just some awful propaganda and I won't have it.

[Niousha · Rating 4 out of 5]

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