From School Library Journal
Grade 4-6–Sixth-grader Greg Kenton has always had a talent for making money. His latest scheme, creating and selling miniature comic books, looks to be a success. However, problems arise when his classmate and longtime nemesis, Maura, competes with him by making her own mini-stories. Even worse, the principal, who believes that comic books are nasty and violent, bans their sale at school. Clements has created another clever, enterprising young protag (more…)
From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2. Take one resolute Ruby, add one sly Max, blend in a shopping trip to buy Grandmother’s birthday present?and a money mix-up is sure to happen. Ruby’s gift of choice is a ballerina-decorated music box, Max’s is vampire teeth oozing cherry syrup. The music box proves too expensive, the teeth drool all over Max’s outfit, resulting in a side trip to the laundromat, but Grandma does get two birthday presents that please her indeed. Before (more…)
To earn coins for the Astro Bear video game, Brother and Sister Bear find ways to work for money. How they find the middle ground between being spendthrifts and little misers makes for a funny, realistic story.
From the Inside Flap
To earn coins for the Astro Bear video game, Brother and Sister Bear find ways to work for money. How they find the middle ground between being spendthrifts and little misers makes for a funny, realistic story.
From Publishers Weekly
This prolific team tackles the advent of legal tender and a mini-history of economics in their latest picture book. The concept of barter is introduced and then shown evolving into the modern practice of trading money for goods and services. Currency’s physical development is also chronicled, from Native American wampum to Spanish “pieces of eight” to various European precious metal coins and printed paper bills. Although the text contains a vast array of f (more…)
From School Library Journal
Grade 4-7–In this updated edition of her 1999 title (Barron’s; o.p.), Harman once again presents a comprehensive guide. Part one introduces different types of U.S. currency including the symbols, material, and history of paper and coins. The author explains the complicated path that money takes from the mint to banks to the consumer. Part two focuses on how to obtain a social security number and the purpose in having one and suggests how to earn mone (more…)
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From The Washington Post
From The Washington Post’s Book World/washingtonpost.com Reviewed by Shelby Coffey III Big money is intoxicating. During the great bubble of the late 1990s, I escorted one of the newly really rich to be interviewed at CNN, where I headed the financial network. “I just made $400 million today,” he boomed, taking the stairs two at a time. The air around him seemed charged with electric good fortune. Several years later, I saw him again (more…)
Amazon.com Review
Absolutely one of the funniest, smartest, meanest books I know. John Self, the Rabelaisian narrator of the novel, is an advertising man and director of TV commercials who lurches through London and Manhattan, eating, drinking, drugging and smoking too much, buying too much sex, and caring for little else besides getting the big movie deal that will make him lots of money. Hey, it was the ’80s. Most importantly, however, Amis in Money musters more sheer en (more…)
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Mike Stewart the internet audio guy describes his experiences as an audio engineer and how he applied those skills to using audio on the internet to market his products and how to make information audio products with your computer.
About the Author
Mike Stewart is president and founder of Soundpages Inc., a complete multimedia production facility located in the Atlanta area of Georgia, USA. Mike has composed countless radio jingles, television scores, and produc (more…)
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