SuitabookGive, $ave, $pend
Clint Greenleaf
- Reading
- After reading, invite your child to sort a few pretend coins into spend, give and save groups, then discuss why they chose those amounts. Keep it exploratory rather than a test.
- Themes
- Spending, giving and saving: The three pigs disagree about what to do with their business profits: one wants to spend, one to give and one to save. These distinct preferences make different uses of money visible, but the book’s evaluation of each choice is not established.
- Building a business: The pigs start a company building brick homes, meet high demand and earn profits. Business and profit provide the context for the money choices; whether the story examines any difficulties or trade-offs in running the company is unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The Big Bad Wolf is described blowing down homes one by one. That threat to the animals’ homes may be worth noting if your child finds fairy-tale danger unsettling.