With her book Money Basics for Kids, author Sharryn Dawson is not merely educating children about money and entrepreneurship, but she sprinkles water at the root of what is possibly the tree of financial literacy.

Dawson is a business consultant, licensed financial advisor and writer of finiancial literature for children. She is also a former teacher, putting her in possession of some – if not all – of the most important pre-requisites to pen such a book.

Money Basics for Kids throughout its five chapters touches on areas of finance of which knowledge is critical to function in a world which revolves around money and thorough understanding is lacking among too many adults: Where does money come from? How do people earn money? How to manage your money? How to save your money? Creating your business idea?

“The aim of the book is to inspire children to use these money management concepts to enhance their understanding of the world of money,” writes diplomat Kendall Belisle in the book’s foreword.

“… the author conveys these financial principles with clarity and brevity, making them vital tools for our children’s academic and personal growth and also for our own societies’ economic prosperity,” she continues.

Dawson starts out by introducing readers to the basic cycle of money and explaining how does money work. By the end of the first chapter, she has delved into debit and credit cards, and Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). In the second chapter, Dawson explains how people and countries generate money, providing an insight into entrpreneurism. From there she advises readers on how to manage money – including the usage of budgeting, before importantly providing insights on how to save money and financial instutions that provide those services. The book concludes by explaining the five pillars one needs to know about creating business ideas and five tips to help with the invention. What’s more is that each chapter has an activity section fitted with a problem solving excercise on money.

Money Basics for Kids is yet to be released but when it is, the book should be an interesting lesson on finance for kids, keeping their attention througout its 68-pages; parents looking to instill these principles upon their kids should find it valuable.

Afterall, as noted by Belisle, in her foreword: “It is time to dismiss the age-old notions that money grows on trees or that it is unacceptable to talk about money in the home.”