Money Tales Set: Daisy Bubble; Princess Persephone and the Money Wizards; Loses the Castle; Dragon Ride Stand; Billy the Borrowing Blue-Footed Booby; Shark Scam Hardcover – Picture Book, January 1, 2024

Money Tales This series is a great start to introducing kids to financial literacy and economics. Designed for grades 1-5. Daisy Bubble: A Price Crash on Galapagos After Arlene the giant tortoise walks down the aisle wearing a crown of daisies, everyone wants some of the beautiful blooms for themselves. Florists sell out quickly, but Sly Seal has a daisy stash that allows him to drive up the price. Soon his customers start buying flowers from each other at even higher markups, hoping to sell them later for a profit. By the time word spreads that more daisies are on the way, this bubble is ready to burst. Princess Persephone and the Money Wizards: Inflation Comes to Ganymede Princess Persephone wants her friends to come along on the summer vacation of her dreams, but they can’t afford tickets. No problem! She can just tell Ganymede’s Money Wizards to print more bills. Though a wizard explains that doing so could lead to price hikes, Persephone insists. Then her royal subjects go on a spending spree, creating a shortage of the tickets her friends need for their trip. What’s a princess to do? Billy the Borrowing Blue-Footed Booby Billy the Blue-Footed Booby, who lived on the Galápagos, wanted to buy an umbrella, so he went to Selling Seal. But Billy didn’t listen to Seal’s explanation of what that umbrella would end up costing him. And then Billy wanted a fan like Arlene the tortoise’s, a purple-striped wig like Ig the iguana’s, neon-green shoes like Niels the lizard’s, and Seal’s anchovy grill. All his friends and his twin sister Bess tried to help, but Billy lost everything. Princess Persephone Loses the Castle Princess Persephone was cold in her castle on freezing Ganymede. So, when Aluminum Jim came calling to sell her tin sheets to nail onto the exterior walls to keep out the cold, Persephone was only too happy to agree to a loan and sign the contract without reading it. What could she do when the tin sheets didn’t work, she couldn’t repay the loan, and Jim claimed the castle? Princess Persephone’s Dragon Ride Stand Princess Persephone wants to travel somewhere warm and sunny in a shiny new spaceship. But her father won’t give her the money she needs for her dream vacation. Persephone comes up with a great idea to earn cash: dragon rides! Learn the ups and downs of entrepreneurship in this amusing story about working hard and spending wisely. Shark Scam Whitey and Cahoots, two sharks, convince giant tortoise Arlene to invest in their sure-fire, money-making scheme. Arlene takes the bait. So do all her friends, and they discover the hard way what a Ponzi scheme. Read more