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Isabel’s Car Wash

The Nelly Longhair doll, the object of Isabel’s desire, is on sale at Murphy’s Toys for ten dollars. But Isabel has only fifty cents. Isabel decides to start a car wash business; she’s sure she can make money. But at the hardware store she learns that her supplies will cost five dollars! She thinks long and hard and comes up with a plan. If five of her friends will give her one dollar each, she’ll have enough. She tells her friends she’ll work very hard and believes she’ll be able to pay them back, plus extra. Her friends agree. Will Isabel be able pay them back and have enough left over for the Nelly doll?

Money Tales
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  • 32 Pages
  • 8" x 10"
  • 9780807536537
  • September 2011

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Reviews

  • Today, with children growing up in a complex global economy, it’s never too early to teach them about the value of saving and investing. Isabel’s simple story about risk and reward takes an intimidating topic and makes it accessible and fun for the next generation of investors. Sheila Bair has done parents, and all of us in the financial literacy field, a valuable service with this book.

    - Mary L. Schapiro, CEO, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and Chairman of the FINRA Investor Education Foundation

  • This title is a great introduction to the economic principles of business loans and could be applied to concepts of stocks and the stock market.

    - Library Media Connection

  • This vividly illustrated picture book serves as math incentive, good story, and business primer.

    - Children's Literature

  • Bair is marching against financial illiteracy…Since 2006, she’s been explaining dollars and cents to Americans who are still getting coins from the Tooth Fairy.

    - The Washington Post

  • Sheila Bair uses illustrations and fun stories to demystify finance for children and the adults who read to them.

    - AARP The Magazine

Awards & Accolades

  • EIFLE Award 2009, Institute for Financial Literacy
  • Rutgers University, Project on Economics and Children - Book of the Month January 2009

Author

Sheila Bair

Illustrator

Common Core

RL.1.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9 RL.2.1,2,3,5,6,7,10 RL.3.1,2,3,4,6,7,10 M.2.MD.C.8

 

  • Accelerated Reader Points: 0.50
  • ATOS Level: 4.20

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