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Product Identifiers

PublisherHoliday House, Incorporated

ISBN-100823417948

ISBN-139780823417940

eBay Product ID (ePID)2545235

Product Key Features

LanguageEnglish

Topicconcepts / Money, Business & Economics, Mathematics / Arithmetic, Coins, Currency & Medals, Juvenile Nonfiction, Antiques & Collectibles

AuthorLoreen Leedy

IllustratorYes

Dimensions

Item Length10 In.

Item Height0.1 In.

Item Width9.8 In.

Item Weight5.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Book TitleFollow the Money!

Grade FromKindergarten

Dewey Decimal332.4

Grade ToThird Grade

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

SynopsisFrom mint, to pocket, to vending machine--tag along with George, a brand new quarter, and see how far a coin goes. With her signature bright, cartoony illustrations, Loreen Leedy explores American currency from the coins' point of view. George starts his day at the U.S. Mint, but he's soon swept away to a bank and dispensed, with a roll of his fellows, to make change at a grocery store. Again and again the quarter changes hands-- dropping into a vending machine, bouncing in a purse, slipping through a hole in someone's pocket. At each transaction, the arithmetic is laid out to show how we add, subtract, and multiply money every day. Keen-eyed readers will notice the page numbers are represented in bills and coins, and the amounts pictured in each scene add up to the listed totals, aiding identification of different denominations of money. This funny introduction to cold hard cash also includes an author's note about different kinds of currency through the ages, how to spot a counterfit bill, an introduction to the 50 States Quarters(TM) program, and a list of money-related vocabulary. Pocket change has never been so entertaining, From mint, to pocket, to vending machine--tag along with George, a brand new quarter, and see how far a coin goes. With her signature bright, cartoony illustrations, Loreen Leedy explores American currency from the coins' point of view. George starts his day at the U.S. Mint, but he's soon swept away to a bank and dispensed, with a roll of his fellows, to make change at a grocery store. Again and again the quarter changes hands-- dropping into a vending machine, bouncing in a purse, slipping through a hole in someone's pocket. At each transaction, the arithmetic is laid out to show how we add, subtract, and multiply money every day. Keen-eyed readers will notice the page numbers are represented in bills and coins, and the amounts pictured in each scene add up to the listed totals, aiding identification of different denominations of money. This funny introduction to cold hard cash also includes an author's note about different kinds of currency through the ages, how to spot a counterfit bill, an introduction to the 50 States Quarters(tm) program, and a list of money-related vocabulary. Pocket change has never been so entertaining!

Publication Year2003

FormatPicture Book

Reviews* "Leedy includes a good deal of information while keeping the book light, energetic, and entertaining."-- Booklist , Starred Review "This is a wonderfully amusing, inviting, and useful title."-- School Library Journal "child readers will never look at their pocket change--or arithmetic, for that matter--in quite the same way."-- Kirkus Reviews

Dewey Edition21

Number of Pages32 pages