| Title |
Author
|
Theme(s)
|
Summary
|
| A Pocketful of Cricket* |
Rebecca Caudill |
Choices |
A young boy stuffs his pocket full of things
he values
|
|
Arthur's Funny Money*
|
Lillian Hoban
|
Wants and savings
|
Arthur saves enough money to buy items
he wants.
|
|
I Want a Cat
|
Tony Ross
|
Wants
|
A young girl wants a cat from her father.
|
| "Keepsake" in Honey I Love* |
Eloise Greenfield
|
Choices
|
This poem tells the story of a girl who
saves a nickel because of the special value she places on it.
|
| Kermit the Hermit* |
Bill Peet |
Spending, Saving, Income, and Interest |
Kermit is a crab who hordes everything he finds.
One day a little boy saves his life. The crab spends the next
few months trying to figure out a way to pay the boy back. |
| Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against
Child Labor* |
Russell Freedman |
Human capital |
This book contains amazing photographs, taken by
Lewis Hine, of child labor in the United States before World War
I. During this time, Hine was working as an investigative photographer
for the National Child Labor Committee. |
| Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters* |
Andrea Davis Pinkney |
Workers/Producers, human capital, saving and spending,
and choices |
The various stories of women freedom fighters incorporates
economics themes, including the economics of slavery itself. |
|
Making Cents: Every Kid's Guide to Money
|
Elizabeth Wilkinson
|
Money
|
This story contains interesting facts,
great moneymaking ideas and hands-on activities for students
to make money.
|
|
Moosey Saves Money
|
Michael Pellowski
|
Saving and spending
|
Young Moosey only wants to save money,
but realizes that he must wisely spend his money at times.
|
| The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Cold War Ends* |
Nigel Kelly |
Supply, demand, opportunity cost, blockades, communist
vs. capitalist modes of production |
This books explains how the Cold War began, persisted,
and ended in a way that elementary students can understand. |
|
The Kid's Money Book
|
Neale Godfrey
|
Value of money
|
This book teaches students about the history,
uses, and values of money.
|
| The Silk Route |
John Major |
Wants and trade |
This is a story about the silk route during the Tang
Dynasty in approximately 700 A.D. The book contains a map of the
silk route and descriptions of the major places through which
it traversed. |
| Tops and Bottoms |
Janet Stevens
|
Entrepreneurship, venture capitalism, investment,
competition |
This book is a sequel to Aesop's
"Hare and the Tortoise". The economic lessons in the
story are based upon Hare being down on his luck and finding a
way to support his family. |
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