A lawyer/radio host and her son collaborate on an overview of investment and money management principles—budgeting, saving, different types of investment, credit and debt, taxes, goals (including socially responsible decisions and college), and more. In the introduction, Berg credits Bochner, 11, with the choice of topics and most of the writing—and, in fact, the tone is thoroughly (if not quite consistently) kid-like. The principle here is that if the basics of money are learned young they become commonplace and nonthreatening. Terms are defined; various approaches to domestic and international investment are discussed and illustrated with entertaining board games. The book works well, despite some uneveness and minor glitches, e.g., a table showing how $1000 will grow at various interest rates doesn't establish that it's $1000 a year. Overall, smart, cheerful, and sensible. Glossary; bibliography; index (not seen). (Nonfiction. 10+)
Pub Date: Jan. 1, 1994
ISBN: 1-55704-183-0
Page Count: 160
Publisher: Newmarket Press
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1994
Sixteen new, wonderfully diverse takes on the ``Dream Time,'' all by authors who have been honored by the Australian Book Council. The borders of reality shift here to reveal figures from the past (Gillian Rubenstein's ``Dolphin Dreaming'') or future (Lee Harding's ``Night of Passage''), spirits angelic (``Silent Reporter,'' by Frank Willmott) or otherwise (Victor Kelleher's ``River Serpent''), and, most of all, the power of dreams (John Marsden's ``Dreamer''; Emily Rodda's ``Zelda''). Change is another common theme: growing up, losing traditions (Christobel Mattingley and Thurley Fowler contribute angry stories about the latter), or trying to recapture the past. Patricia Wrightson's bittersweet ``You Can't Keep a Unicorn'' and Mary Steele's hilarious ``Aunt Millicent'' (about a very real, yet imaginary, relative) cap this uncommonly rich collection. (Short Stories. 12-15)
Pub Date: Sept. 1, 1991
ISBN: 0-395-57434-X
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 1991
Using stories of individuals and families to illuminate important events and aspects of the Alaskan experience, the Millers subtly convey the message that there is still great opportunity there. Frank and Mary Miller came from Austria to ride the gold rush to Fairbanks, where they prospered and raised 11 children. Jim Dobson was a pioneering bush pilot; Willie Hensley, an Inuit, became politically savvy. Other chapters center on the recent oil spill, the great 1964 earthquake, a fishing family, and back-to-the-land trappers and sledders. Generally entertaining and informative, if stylistically bumpy. Factual accounts of oil development and the newly established friendship with the USSR are appended. Glossary (somewhat sketchy); selected facts; bibliography. (Nonfiction. 12+)
Pub Date: Sept. 1, 1991
ISBN: 0-525-65050-4
Page Count: 144
Publisher: Dutton
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 1991
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