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Illustrated by
Clayton Hanmer.
Ten chapters introduce financial terms, concepts, and strategies: topics include value, savings plans, credit cards, investments, and charitable giving. The message that finances should be discussed openly is useful, but the tone verges on flippant and the font is dauntingly tiny. Spot illustrations, full-page cartoon panels, and information boxes--all in energetic lime green--help relate difficult ideas. Glos., ind.