Explaining finance to the youngest readers
Buck learns a lesson
Moving up the currency scale, Wilson’s “A Dollar’s Grand Dream” (2023, Page Street Kids) is set to debut in July. In it, an overeager dollar fantasizes about a glamorous life as a multi-zeroed denomination, but then realizes that such celebrity comes with social isolation as a result of the unwieldy value contained in a $10,000 bill. Wilson recently wrote the third in what is now a series, “A Credit Card Takes Charge” (2024, Page Street Kids), in which a swipe-drunk credit card pulls up short when the bill arrives.