A Kid's Guide to Becoming a Money Master - by Samantha Bird (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

In today's world, understanding money is an essential skill that children are rarely taught early on even though research shows that many financial habits are set by age 7. This fun, engaging children's guide to financial literacy empowers young readers to develop healthy financial habits from an early age.

A Kid's Guide to Becoming a Money Master combines engaging storytelling with practical financial education and fun activities for elementary-aged children. The book follows Hazel, an ambitious young girl, as she embarks on a journey to learn essential money skills in order to save for a trip after discovering a magic piggy bank on her bedside table. To her amazement the piggy bank comes to life and explains that it can grant her wish--but only if she completes a series of money challenges.

Each of the first six chapters introduces a specific financial concept--earning, saving, spending wisely, managing expenses/budgeting, investing, and giving--while also weaving in critical soft skills like managing jealousy, building self-confidence, and practicing impulse control. By the final chapter, Hazel has not only saved enough for her trip but also gained confidence in her ability to manage money.

Bright, engaging illustrations reinforce the concepts, and fun activities at the end of each chapter allow children to apply what they've learned in real life.

About the Author

Samantha Bird's journey with personal finance is deeply personal. As a new mom, she found herself completely out of her depth, buried in $40k of consumer debt, barely scraping by, and desperately trying to survive with a baby in tow. Samantha spent the next two years learning everything she could about personal finance. In the next two years, she managed to pay off all her consumer debt, build a respectable investment portfolio, and create a solid emergency fund. That's when Samantha made it her mission to teach her kids (and others) everything they could possibly need to know about money. She developed a system to teach kids financial literacy and founded Early Bird Education so she could empower other children by providing free resources for parents of kids 6-12 along with workshops and other programs for both kids and their parents.

Samantha's work has been featured locally (tv and print) and nationally in publications such as The New York Post, The Sun (UK) and Market Watch (where she has been interviewed multiple times) and on programs like Fox Business TV's Cavuto Coast to Coast. She's also appeared as a guest on multiple podcasts including The Old Money Podcast.