Online Resources for Teaching Economics and Personal Finance Using Children’s Literature

Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education, University of Missouri-St. Louis Wise Pockets Schoolhouse Lessons Online personal finance lessons at www.umsl.edu/~wpockets/schoolhouse/lessons/lessons.html Title Author

The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze The Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money Bingo Brown and the Language of Love Four Dollars and Fifty Cents From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler A Gift for Mama The Hundred Penny Box Kermit the Hermit The Leaves in October Meet Molly, An American Girl Not for a Billion Gazillion Dollars Stone Fox Tarantula Shoes

Jan and Stan Berenstain Jan and Stan Berenstain Betsy Byars Eric A. Kimmel E. L. Konigsburg Esther Hautzig Bell Mathis, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon Bill Peet Karen Ackerman Valerie Tripp Paul Danziger John Reynolds Gardiner Tom Birdseye

Money Management International Online personal finance lessons at www.moneymanagement.org/Education/Resources/ Title Author

Contains lessons for the books listed above and … Mr. Poppers’s Penguins Yard Sale

Richard and Florence Atwater James Stevenson

Indiana Council on Economic Education Online personal finance lessons at www.kidseconbooks.com/index.html Title Author

The Everything Kids’ Money Book Follow the Money Growing Money The Kids Guide to Money Cent$ The Kids’ Money Book Money: Kids Can Learn with Franklin (Workbook) Money, Money, Money Monster Money Book The Story of Money The Totally Awesome Business Book for Kids

Diane May Loreen Leedy Gail Karlitz Keltie Thomas Jamie Kyle McGillian Kids Can Press Nancy Winslow Parker Loreen Leedy Betsy Maestro Adriane G. Berg & Arthur Berg Bochner

Indiana Council on Economic Education Online lessons at www.kidseconbooks.com/index.html Title Author Concepts

A Abuela’s Weave Agatha’s Feather Bed Alexander, Who Use to Be Rich Last Sunday Ant Cities Apple Farmer Annie Apples Apples for Life Arthur's Pet Business Arthur’s TV Trouble The Awful Aardvarks Shop for School B The Babe and I Bea and Mr. Jones Bear Wants More Bearhide and Crow Benny’s Pennies Better Than a Lemonade Stand! Small Business Ideas for Kids The Big Buck Adventure Blackberry Booties Boom Town The Bootmaker and the Elves Bringing the Raiin to Kapiti Plain Bunny Money A Busy Day at the Factory C Captain Abdul's Pirate School Cash, Credit Cards, or Checks A Chair for My Mother Charlie Needs a Cloak Check It Out: The Book About Banking Chocolate: That's How They Make It! Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type Crispin the Pig Who Had It All Curious George Goes to a Chocolate Factory D Dan's Pants: The Adventures of Dan, the Fabric Man A Dollar for Penny The Doorbell Rang E Erandi’s Braids Estela’s Swap Extra Cheese, Please F Farming (America at Work Series) Farmer’s Market

Omar Castaneda Carmen Agra Deedy Judity Viorst Arthur Dorros Monica Wellington Gail Gibbons Alan Zepeda Marc Brown Marc Brown Reeve Lindbergh David A. Adler Amy Schwartz Karma Wilson Paul Brett Johnson Pat Brisson D Berstein Shelley Gill & Deborah Tobola Tricia Gardella Sonia Levitin Susan Lowell Verna Aardema Rosemary Wells Philippe Dupasquier McNaughton Nancy Loewen Vera B. Williams Tomie de Paola Neale S. Godfrey Elaine Moore Doreen Cronin Ted Dewan H.A. Rey M Good Dr. Julie Glass Pat Hutchins Antonio Hernandez Madrigal Alexis O’Neil Chris Peterson Ann Love & Jane Drake Paul Brett Johnson

Human Resources Natural Resources Savings Interdependence Producers Gr. PreK-2 Productive Resources Capital Resources Profit (Supply and) Demand Economic Wants Savings Trade-Offs Economic Wants Trade & Money Consumers Entrepreneur Consumers, Price Natural Resources Supply & Demand Productivity Scarcity Trade & Money Productivity Investing Trade & Money Savings Human Resources Savings Productivity Economic Wants Economic Wants Productivity Supply & Demand Price Scarcity Opportunity Cost Price Productive Resources Producers Market

Forestry (America at Work Series) The Furry News: How To Make a Newspaper G Gettin’ Through Thursday The Giving Tree The Go-Around Dollar The Goat in the Rug General Store Grandpa’s Corner Store Growing Vegetable Soup H The Hatseller and the Monkeys How A Book Is Made How a House is Built How Much is That Doggie In the Window? How Santa Got His Job How the Second Grade Got $8,205.50 To Visit the Statue of Liberty How To Make an Apple Pie and See the World I Ice Cream: The Cold Creamy Treat ISAAC The Ice Cream Truck If You Give A Pig a Pancake It Takes A Village J Jennie’s Hat Just a Dream Just Shoppin With Mom K Katy and the Big Snow The Kid's Business Book L Leah’s Pony Lemonade for Sale Letting Swift River Go The Life and Times of the Peanut Little Nino's Pizzeria The Little Red Hen: (Makes a Pizza) Loon Lake Fishing Derby The Lorax M Mailing May Mama Bear Market Days Mel's Diner Milk From Cow to Carton Mining (America at Work Series) A Money Adventure My Dad’s Job My Father’s Luncheonette My New York

Jane Drake & Ann Love Loreen Leedy Melrose Cooper Shel Silverstein Barbara Johnston Adams Charles L. Blood Rachel Fields Dyanne DiSalvo-Ryan Lois Ehlert Baba Wague Diakite Aliki Brandenburg Gail Gibbons Bob Merrill Stephern Krensky N Zimelman Marjorie Priceman Elaine Landau Scott Santoro Laura Numeroff Jane Cowen-Fletcher Ezra Jack Keats Chris Van Allsburg Mercer Mayer Virginia Lee Burton Arlene Erlbach Elizabeth Friedrich Stuart J. Murphy Jane Yolen Charles Micucci Karen Barbour Philemon Sturgis Kathleen Cook Waldron Dr. Seuss Michael O. Tunnell Chyng Feng Sun Madhur Jaffrey Marissa Moss Aliki Brandenberg Jane Drake & Ann Love Neale S Godfrey Peter Glassman Melanie Hope Greenberg Kathy Jakobsen

Natural Resources Productivity Scarcity Natural Resources Trade & Money Productive Resources Goods & Services Interdependence Natural Resources Producers Human Resources Specialization Economic Wants Human Resources Profit Productive Resources Consumers Specialization Economic Wants Interdependence Goods & Services Natural Resources Economic Wants Goods & Services Entrepreneur Price Supply & Demand Trade-Offs Productive Resources Entrepreneur Producers Entrepreneur Scarcity Opportunity Cost Savings Market Entrepreneur Productive Resources Capital Resources Investing Specialization Producers Goods & Services

My Rows and Piles of Coins My Town N A New Coat for Anna O Once Upon a Company...A True Story Once Upon a Dime: A Math Adventure One Grain of Rice The Ox-Cart Man P Pancakes, Pancakes! Paperboy Paying Taxes The Penny Pot Pig and Crow Pigs Go To Market Pigs Will be Pigs The Popcorn Book The Pot That Juan Built R Reuben and the Quilt Round and Round the Money Goes Rumble, Grumble, Gurgle, Road Rumplestiltskin’s Daughter S Sam and the Lucky Money Saturday Market Saturday Sancocho Something Special for Me Sold! Stock Market Pie Stock Market Smart Sweet Potato Pie Sweet Strawberries T Take Me Out To the Bat and Ball Factory The Terrible Thing That Happened At Our House Thank You, Mr. Falker The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig To Market, To Market Tony’s Bread Too Many Chickens Tools Tops & Bottoms The Tortilla Factory Trashy Town U Uncle Jed's Barbershop

Tololwa M Mollel William Wegman Harriet Ziefert Wendy Anderson Halperin Nancy Kelly Allen Demi Donald Hall Eric Carle Mary Kay Kroeger and Louise Borden Sarah DeCapua Stuart Murphy Kay Chorao Amy Axelrod Amy Axelrod Tomie DaPaola Antonio Hernandez Madrigal Merle Good Melvin and Gilda Berger Web Story by NCEE Diane Stanley Karen Chinn Patricia Grossman and Enrique O. Sanchez Leyla Toores Vera B Williams Nathan Zimlelman, J. M. Seymour Eileen Nixon McGowan and Nancy Lagow Dumas Kathleen D. Lindsey Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Peggy Thomson M Blaine Patricia Polacco Trivizas Anne Miranda Tomie dePaola Paulette Bourgeois Ann Morris Janet Stevens Gary Paulsen Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha Margaret King Mitchell

Investing Goods & Services Trade & Money Investing Trade & Money Scarcity Consumers Productive Resources Supply & Demand Consumers Price Trade & Money Goods & Services Trade & Money Producers Productive Resources Scarcity Trade & Money Economic Wants Goods & Services Scarcity Market Trade & Money Consumers Price Market Market Producers Market Productive Resources Opportunity Cost Specialization Capital Resources Goods & Services Specialization Goods & Services Capital Resources Opportunity Cost Productive Resources Goods & Services Savings

V Vision of Beauty W Walter the Baker Welcome to Our Farm (Craft Patterns) What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? Who Wants a Cheap Rhinocerous Why Money Was Invented Working Cotton The World In a Supermarket Worm Gets a Job Y Yard Sale

Kathryn Lasky Eric Carle Corrine Miller Jean Fritz Shel Silverstein Neale S. Godfrey Sherley Anne Williams Rozanne Lanczak Williams Kathy Caple James Stevenson

Entrepreneur Human Resources Producers Entrepreneur Goods & Services Trade & Money Human Resources Interdependence Specialization Economic Wants