28th April Teach Children to Save Day

There's some debate about exactly when this day is... the 27th, the fourth Thursday in April...but whenever it is. there's picture books to help.

There are stories where children are saving for something, stories where children are earning money to save and  there are stories that will give children food for thought about the value of money. Try these:

Last Sunday, Alexander's grandparents gave him a dollar--and he was rich. There were so many things that he could do with all of that money!He could buy as much gum as he wanted, or even a walkie-talkie, if he saved enough. But somehow the money began to disappear...

A lemonade stand in winter? Yes, that's exactly what Pauline and John-John intend to have, selling lemonade and limeade--and also lemon-limeade. An entrepreneurship how-to that celebrates the thrill of the marketplace.

"I emptied my secret money box, arranged the coins in piles and the piles in rows ..." The market is full of wonderful things, but Saruni is saving his precious coins for a red and blue bicycle. How happy he will be when he can help his mother carry heavy loads to market on his very own bicycle - and how disappointed he is to discover that he hasn't saved nearly enough! 

It's hard when there are soooo many great things to buy! You want a toy, some ice-cream, a donut but you can't have it all. Money doesn't grow on trees, you know! This book teaches the valuable lesson about where money comes from and where it goes!

Vera Williams tells of a young girl who, along with her waitress mother, saves coins in a big jar in hopes that they can someday buy a new chair for their apartment, the kind of chair her mother deserves after being on her feet all day in the Blue Tile Diner. Into the jar also goes the money Grandma saves whenever she gets a bargain at the market.

It's Grandma's birthday, and Ruby knows exactly what Grandma would love-a beautiful ballerina box. Max also knows what she'd love-a scary pair of ooey-gooey vampire teeth. Ruby has saved up a walletful of bills, but as unexpected mishap after mishap occurs, money starts running through the bunnies' fingers....

Honey Bunny Funnybunny has lots and lots and lots of money. Some she saves, some she spends on herself, and some she spends on her friends.

Sophie has just won $100 in an art competition. What is she going to do with it? Will she spend it or save it? What would you do?

These are a book from a series of books 

A Bunny Money Book  by Cinders McCleod

Money Matters  by Sue Graves

Money Box  by Ben Hubbard

The Maths Adventurers  by Sita Gorasia