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Reading List for Kansas Kids
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The current state of our Nation's economy shows how critical it is that we teach Kansas youth about finances as early as possible. Children and adults alike must understand that they do have control over their financial future. Stressing basic financial responsibilities is a lesson best learned early in life and reinforced through the years.

The below reading list provides lessons on cost-benefit analysis, barter and exchange, having a job, work and human capital, having and earning money, and saving techniques for kids from preschool through high school. This list is designed to get kids to begin thinking about and engaging in dialog about some basic financial concepts.

As both Kansas State Treasurer, and as a parent myself, I recommend that parents talk to their children about finances early and often. Reading these books to kids is a great way to communicate the message of financial responsibility. I appreciate the important role that parents and caregivers play in shaping our children's future and I thank you for your dedication.

Sincerely,
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Dennis McKinney
Kansas State Treasurer

NOTE: To read a description of each book place your pointer over the title.

The Great Pet Sale By Mick Inkpen	I Shop with my Daddy By Grace Maccarone	Something Good By Robert Munsch	Just Shopping with Mom By Mercer Mayer
Sheep in a Shop By Nancy Shaw	The Painting Gorilla By Michael Rex	Bunny Money By Rosemary Wells

The Great Pet Sale By Mick Inkpen	Something Good By Robert Munsch	Just Shopping with Mom By Mercer Mayer	Going to Town Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Berenstain Bears get the Gimmes By Jan & Stan Berenstain	Arthur's TV Trouble By Marc Brown	Sam and the Lucky Money By Karen Chinn	A Bargain for Frances By Russel Hoban
Glo Goes Shopping By Cheryl Willis Hudson	My Little House By Virgina Lee Burton	How Much is that Doggie in the Window? By Bob Iza &Merrill Trapani	The Table Where Rich People Sit By Byrd Baylor
The Opportunity Cost of a Lifetime By Council for Econ Ed	Stone Fox By John Reynolds Gardiner	Make Four Million Dollars by Next Thursday By Stephen Manes	Bingo Brown and the Language of Love By Betsy Byars
Tight Times By Barbara Shook Hazen	Sheep in a Shop By Nancy Shaw	The Purse By Kathy Caple	A New Coat for Anna By Harriet Ziefert
Matilda the Moocher By Diana Cain Bluthenthal	Fortunately By Remy Charlip	One Fine Day By Nonny Hogrogian	Kermit the Hermit By Bill Peet
Max's Money By Teddy Slater	Four Dollars and Fifty Cents By Eric A. Kimmel	The Iroquois By Craig A. & Kathleen Doherty	The Trading Game By Alfred Slote
My First Job By Julia Allen	The Berenstain Bears & Mama's New Job By Jan & Stan Berenstain	Frank and Ernest Play Ball By Alexandra Day	Fit for Pigs By Johanna, Asa & Moller Hammer
Curious George Takes a Job By H.A. Rey	Busiest People Ever By Richard Scarry	A Day's Work By Eve Bunting	Tops & Bottoms By Janet Stevens
Immigrant Kids By Russell Freedman	The Store that Mama Built By Robert Lehrman	Arthur's Pet Business By March Brown	Ox-Cart Man By Donald Hall
Max Malone Makes a Million By Charlotte Herman	Beatrice's Goat By Page McBrier	Picking Peas for a Penny By Angela Shelf Medearis	A Basket of Bangles: How a Business Begins By Ginger Howard
The Shoeshine Girl By Clyde Robert Bulla	The Toothpaste Millionaire By Jean Merrill	Uncle Jed's Barbershop By Margaret King Mitchell	A Gift for Mama By Esther Hautzig
Dear Mr. Henshaw By Beverly Cleary	From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil By E.L. Konigsburg	My Side of the Mountain By Jean Craighead George	The Grasshopper and the Ant By Council for Econ Ed
Jeff's Big Decision By Council for Econ Ed	Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday By Judit Viorst	The Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money By Jan & Stan Berenstain	Lucky the Golden Goose By John D. Wrenn
Doggone Lemonade Stand! By Judy Bradbury	Just a Piggy Bank By Mercer Mayer	Something Special for Me By Vera B. Williams	My Rows and Piles of Coins By Tololwa M. Mollel
Meet Molly, An American Girl By Valerie Tripp	Tarantula Shoes By Tom Birdseye	The Gift of the Magi By O. Henry	The Painting Gorilla By Michael Rex
Bunny Money By Rosemary Wells	Round and Round the Money Goes - What Money is and How We Use It By Melvin & Gilda Berger	Follow the Money! By Loreen Leedy	Pigs will be Pigs By Amy Axelrod
The Go-Around Dollar By Barbara Johnston Adams	The story of Jack and the Bank Stalk By Council for Econ Ed	The Hundred Penny Box By Sharon Bell Mathis	The Emperor's New Clothes By Christian Andersen Hans
If you Made a Million By David M. Schwartz	The Case of the Shrunken Allowance By Joanne Rocklin

The Opportunity Cost of a Lifetime By Council for Econ Ed	Make Four Million Dollars by Next Thursday By Stephen Manes	Bingo Brown and the Language of Love By Betsy Byars	Tight Times By Barbara Shook Hazen
The Trading Game By Alfred Slote	Immigrant Kids By Russell Freedman	The Store that Mama Built By Robert Lehrman	A Gift for Mama By Esther Hautzig
Dear Mr. Henshaw By Beverly Cleary	From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil By E.L. Konigsburg	My Side of the Mountain By Jean Craighead	Not for a Billion Gazillion Dollars By Paula Danziger
Meet Molly, An American Girl By Valerie Tripp	Tarantula Shoes By Tom Birdseye	Where the Red Fern Grows By Wilson Rawls	The Gift of the Magi By O. Henry
If you Made a Million By David M. Schwartz	The Case of the Shrunken Allowance By Joanne Rocklin	Money/Eyewitness Book Series / 2000 By Joe Cribb	How to Make a Million By Rowland Morgan
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry By Mildred D. Taylor

Where the Red Fern Grows By Wilson Rawls	Out of the Dust By Karne Hesse	Blue Willow By Doris Gates	No Promises in the Wind By Irene Hunt
Saving Grace By Priscilla Cummings	Cat Running By Ziplha Snyder	The Grapes of Wrath By John Steinbeck	The Summer of the Crow By Eunice Bovine
The Storyteller's Daughter By Jean Thesman	A Room of my Own By Ann Tatlock	Nowhere to Call Home By Cnythia DeFelice	Her Father's Daughter By Mollie Poupeney
Bud not Buddy By Christopher Paul Curtis	Rose's Journal-the story of a girl in the Great Depression By Marissa Moss	Children of the Dust Bowl: The true story of the school at Weedpatch Camp By Jerry Stanley

Below are some resources that can be helpful in your search for Financial Literacy reading:

The Kansas State Library
http://www.kslib.info/

To search for a library in your area
http://skyways2.lib.ks.us/kld/

U.S. Financial Literacy and Education Commission
http://www.mymoney.gov/kids.shtml

For more information on Financial Literacy please e-mail us FinancialLiteracy@treasurer.ks.gov or call:
Michelle Kaberline
Financial Literacy Coordinator
Kansas State Treasurer's Office
785-296-0645

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