Turon Community Library partners with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to increase financial literacy of area children.

Turon Community Library is pleased to present educational material offered by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau free of charge to fifty area children. Each will receive six story booklets about the Money Monsters. They are new to this universe and they have a lot to learn about money.

After reading the stories, I would recommend these for mid to upper elementary students. These do work as read alouds, and their highlighted portions of text make them very conducive to parent/child co-reading; however, the child will need to have a good attention span because there are not a lot of pictures, and they will need to have a good grasp of some math concepts. While these books do not require you to do actual math, the story can sometimes read like a really long word problem, especially in the story, “Money Monsters Learn What Things Actually Cost”. Children will also need to understand basic concepts, like $4 is less than $5, and the difference between $3 over ten days and $15 all at once.

Don’t let that deter you from picking up this story collection. The stories are very relatable to the daily lives of children, and they use those relatable circumstances to teach financial literacy. From the difference between giving, donating, and sharing to the difference between a job and a career, there is a lot to glean from these fantastic tales that isn’t math related at all.

Visit the library to pick up your free books today. Browse the educational posters provided by the CFPB for more information. They are in the YA section of the library.

But it doesn’t end there. You can visit the CFPB’s Money Monsters Stories webpage to find more information, including a downloadable copy of their chapter book, Money Monsters Start Their Own Business, and links to activities to accompany each story.