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96 pp.
| Sterling
| July, 2003
|
TradeISBN 0-8069-8223-3$$17.95
(3)
4-6
Illustrated by
Ian Phillips
&
Ian Phillips.
This improbably amusing primer aims to teach kids how to stay solvent and even philanthropic while navigating consumer culture. Advice ranges from the standard--saving money, budgeting, investing--to the inspired: finding a "money mentor," bartering with friends, following the "Immediate Gratification Blaster" program. Scattered throughout are quizzes and cartoony images of children with round, outsize heads suggestive of coins. Ind.