Dollars & Sense: A Kid's Guide to Using--Not Losing--Money [Hardcover]

We’re in the money!
 
Many things come with instructions. Unfortunately, money isn’t one of them. Most people learn how to use it—or lose it—by trial and error.Dollars & Senseis a basic operating instruction manual for money that will teach readers about the history of money, the way our American economy works, and how to make important decisions about personal finance.
 
From skulls, sheep, and shells as barter in ancient civilizations to credit, interest, and collateral of our modern day economics, money—and all its glorious uses and cantankerous troubles—is explained in this concise and entertaining volume. Learn about how to make money, how to budget your money, how the government manages (or mismanages!) money, and how to be rich without even trying. Money is sometimes your friend and sometimes your enemy, but in this day and age, we all have to learn to get along with it.
 
An engaging and approachable guide for kids tackling how to responsibly manage their money.
 
Included are sidebars, time lines, diagrams, a glossary, and further resources, as well as information on related topics such as the Great Recession and sequestration.A sporty guide to the wide, weird world of money. Scott starts with the early forms of barter; when barter outgrew itself as the population increased: things that were traded simply didn't match up evenly. There was no common medium of exchange. Those mediums came, in the form of salt, cowrie shells, wampum, feathers, and precious metals and gems. Buoyed by Clark's comic, explicative ink drawings, Scott sallies on to cover the evolution of currency and economy, mediums of exchange and standards, and charts the evolution of banks ( ‘Bank' comes from the Italian word banco, meaning a long bench on which money changers set up shop ). Numerous sidebars serve as attending footnotes to cover such topics as personalities, Hammurabi's Code, banlƒ˝