Children love to collect shiny little coins well before they understand their significance. This book will help them to attach value to their pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. Featuring a fun rhyming storyline, colorful illustrations, and slots for coins directly on its pages, this sturdy book will have immediate appeal. As children fill in the pages' paths, jars, and quarries with coins, they receive a visual exercise in coin values and equivalencies. On one page, for example, kids fill a jar with 25 pennies, and place a quarter at the top. Children explore different ways to sort coins that add up to one dollar in Dollar Round-up, and "buy" toys by inserting various combinations of coins to add up to the correct price at the Store.
Once all the coin slots in this 10-page book are filled, parents might allow their children to trade their coins for a $20 bill and then take a trip to the toy store. Of course, kids can then start all over again, collecting and saving more coins directly in the book's pages.
This book, along with a little bag of coins to get started, would make an ideal gift for any child ready to learn about currency. It's an inventive alternative to saving coins in a piggy bank, and helps children not only to recognize the differences in coin values, but also to practice early math skills like skip counting.
