Books on Money for Children « Be Money Aware Blog

Books on Money for Children

Jan• 19•13

Unlike the school where we have a curriculum and know that we know to begin from (ABC, DoReMe) for financial literacy , increasing our awareness about money, we don’t have much clue or help or guidance except our experiences. The good or bad part of experience or life is Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. While we have books, blogs about financial concepts for adults sadly information related on making Kids aware of Money are limited, especially focused on India. In this article we have tried to collect information about books written for Indians kids (yes we do have, countable but not zero). RBI also has undertaken Project Financial Literacy and comic books to teach banking concepts to kids. Bemoneyaware also has activity books and free book for kids, which are also discussed here.

Financial challenges before our kids

Kids these days are so different, so much exposed to so many things, have so much power -they have say in deciding car, computer etc, so much peer pressure and so much mired in debt. Picture below Life of Debt : Financial Journey of Average American showcases what our child might have to go through. Click to enlarge.

Living Life of Debt: Financial Journey of Average American

Financial Journey is laden with debt

Financial Literacy for Kids

What should our kids know at different ages

Kids Age of 5-6 years

Kids 7-9 years

Kids and Money at 10-12 years

Kids and Money at 13-15 years

Kids and Money at 16-18 years

Reserve Bank of India : Project Financial Literacy

In India, The Reserve Bank of India(RBI) has undertaken a project titled “Project Financial Literacy”. To go to RBI Financial Education website Click here. The Objective of the project is to disseminate information regarding the central bank and general banking concepts to various target groups, including, school and college going children, women etc. The project has been designed to be implemented in comic form. These can also be downloaded in pdf format from RBI website. Click on image to know more about book, click on link to read the book at RBI.

Raju introduces banking concepts: Raju and Money Tree, Raju and Magical Goat, Raju and Sky Ladder
Money Kumar familiarises with the role and functions of the Reserve Bank of India : Money Kumar and Monetary Policy , Money Kumar and Caring for Currency,
Short story book Old Man Monetary :Adventures for youngster about evolution of currency.

Raju and Money Tree	Raju and Magical Goat	Raju and Sky Ladder
RBI: Money Kumar and The Monetary Policy	RBI: Money Kumar and Caring for Currency	Old Man Monetary

Books in market

Books written by Indian authors for kids teaching money are (in no particular order):

Happionaire’s Money Game by Yogesh Chabria of Rs 399. Details at blog.happionaire.com Book at flipkart : The story of a young boy and his adventures in saving, investing and money
Adventures In Moneypur by Swapna Mirashi at flipkart Review at museindia.com *Seems out of stock
The Art And Science Of Teaching Children About Money by Amar Pandit of Rs 499 book available at flipkart.com Details at facebook, Interview with Amar Pandit:Don’t try to make your kid the next Warren Buffet, at rediff.com , Amar Pandit’s website myfinad.com
Bill And Penny’s Money Adventure by Amar Pandit (Rs 299) : The Bill and Penny series of entertaining short stories will help your child easily understand the value and uses of money. The book will help you understand the importance of money, why we have it, how we get it, how we can grow it and what else can we do with it with just a little thinking at flipkart Details at facebook.com, Review by subramoney.com, details at amar pandit’s website, review at lovingyourchild.com

: Indian books on money awareness for children

BeMoneyAware.com has FREE book for children Be Money Aware for Children: Book is targeted for 10 year+ old. The topic covered in the book are given below. For excerpts Click here. You can download the book (complete book or individual chapters ) free of cost from our website To download Click here

What is money?
How do people make money?
How is Money spent?
What are Banks and how do they work?
What is ATM,
What are cheques, how to write a cheque?
What are plastic cards, what are debit and credit cards?
What happens when one swipes the card?
Rich people of the world, Rich people of India History of money, Mythology and money.

: Money awareness for Children by bemoneyaware.com

There are some activity books also such as Learn Money : For ages 5-10 and Learn Money : For ages 10+.

Sample pages from Learn Money : For ages 5-10 are shown below:

Workbook for kids by bemoneyaware

Sample pages from Learn Money : For ages 10+ are shown below:

Workbook for young adults by bemoneyaware

We have successfully conducted workshops for kids. If in Bangalore and interested for group of 10 kids you can contact us at bemoneyaware@gmail.com

Related Articles :

In this article we have tried to collect information about books written for Indians kids (yes we do have, countable but not zero). How do you teach your kids about money? Do assume that they will learn about it by themselves? What money habits are you passing to your children? If you know some good books for children please let us know we shall add it to the article.

Pin It

Posted in Basics, General, Kids, Money Talk , Books, Kids, money | 2 Comments »

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Comments

Lakshmipathy says:

January 21, 2013 at 3:57 PM

In your old posts i saw the book “Bill and Penny Adventures”. I read it. It was good . I gave it to my relative kid. Thanks.
- admin says:
  
  January 22, 2013 at 4:11 AM
  
  Thanks Lakshmipathy. Stories are short and sweet. Did you try our free book?
  I have taken from the old post Books for Adults and Young Adults, on suggestion of my yound readers!

Be Money Aware Blog