Getting Down to Business

Lynne Gibbs, Lorraine Horsley. Brighter Child, $14.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-1-57768-558-6

Fledgling entrepreneurs will be interested in the paper-over-board Getting Down to Business: A First Guide to Earning, Saving, and Spending Money by Lorraine Horsley, illus. by John Eastwood. This introduction offers an overview of the history of currency and trade, provides a glimpse of the financial and banking world, gives tips for earning and budgeting money, and defines many financial terms along the way.

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