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You Can't Buy a Dinosaur with a Dime

Blue Apple Books By Harriet Ziefert
Illustrated by Amanda Haley

8 x 10 in; 32 pp ; full-color illustrations, ages 5-8
Paperback
Published in February, 2007
ISBN 1593545916
ISBN13 9781593545918

$6.95  

You Can't Buy a Dinosaur with a Dime -- Clink, clink, clink, clink...Clink, clink, clinkity... Money saved in a bank makes your brain think-thinkity!

Children are fascinated by money—how it looks, feels, smells, and most of all, what it buys. And Pete is no exception. The rhymed verse describes how Pete saves his allowance, spends too much of it, has second thoughts, and starts over. Young readers will not only applaud Pete's decisions, but join him in his computations as he saves, spends, and strategizes over future purchases. The lively combination of fact and fiction, plus humorous art, will prove both thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable.

Harriet Ziefert is the author of more than two hundred books for children. The mother of two and grandmother of four, she lives and works in South Orange, New Jersey.

Amanda Haley holds a B.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives in Virginia with her husband and their golden retriever, Sally.