Big Money
What It Is, How We Use It, and Why Our Choices Matter
Square Fish · Print & ebook · October 28, 2025
In this basic introduction to money, readers learn about various economic models throughout history with compelling illustrations and probing questions that explore the real world circumstances surrounding spending, selling, and saving.
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- Who it’s for
- Big Money links everyday money choices to wider economic and social systems through real-world examples.
- Themes
- Money and economic models, Spending, selling, and saving, Everyday economic choices
- Genres
- Money for Kids, Kids Business & Economics
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In this basic introduction to money, readers learn about various economic models throughout history with compelling illustrations and probing questions that explore the real world circumstances surrounding spending, selling, and saving. Big Money aims to explain economic principles in a way that combines the weird and the meaningful, like Planet Money for kids.
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Organized in seven chapters, each posing a general question and answering it through real-world examples, this book explores the consequences of our everyday economic choices by connecting the dots between young consumers and the larger economic and social systems around them.
Everyday Money Choices
Big Money links everyday money choices to wider economic and social systems through real-world examples.
Come here for
- Economic models across history
- Real-world questions about spending, selling, and saving
Expect
- Seven chapters built around questions and examples
- Illustrations and probing questions about money's real-world circumstances
Where it sits
| Money for Kids | 93% |
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| Kids Business & Economics | 58% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Kids Business & Economics
- Money for Kids
- Growing Up & Society
- Authors
- Rebecca Donnelly
- Publisher
- Square Fish
- Published
- October 28, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Money and economic models · Spending, selling, and saving · Everyday economic choices
- Reading lane
- Kids Business & Economics