Smart Money & Big Ideas stories

First big ideas about money, choices, and worth, quietly building lifelong good sense through small stories.

• 38 Shekels and One Garden Trowel
• Don't Give Dad a Vacuum Cleaner
• Not a Word About the Spare Change
• How Do You Sell Shade?
• Change from Thursday
• The Notebook That Swallowed the Fair
• The Third Grade's Secret Price List
• A Cotton Candy-Flavored Mystery
• The Main Suspect: The Tablet
• Six Leashes in Two Hands
• Red Bicycle in a Jar
• A Scooter in a Jar
• A Red Robot for Zero Shekels
• A Magician! No, Wait, a Cake!
• A Watermelon for an Agora
• Ines's Swap Table
• How Many Pinecones is a Shiny Ball Worth?
• The Thread That Tied the Swing to the Slide
• Two Coins in a Pocket
• Three Hungry Jars
• Just One Little Bite
• Blue Dragon or Sticky Tape?
• The Coin That Ran Away Into the Flour
• Moon on a Stick
• Noah Doesn't Open His Hand
• Can I Have Your Shovel for a Moment?
• A Red Spinning Top or a Yellow Banana?
• Where Do Stickers Sleep?
• Dad Stays on the Bench
• A Mountain in a Jar
• Big Coin, Little Coin
• A Hundred Thousand Dollars of Nothing
• An Exercise in Control
• A Jar with a Lock
• Two Hundred Shekels and One Gray Line
• A Two-Hour Hamburger
• Terms of Engagement with the Parents
• Five Minutes to Zero
• Lies in Galaxy Blue
• The Absolutely Final Version
• Gary's Magnificent Failure
• A Whole Garden for Five Shekels
• The Black Notebook Behind the Bleachers
• The Drawer That Fixes Scooters
• The Empty Pockets Championship
• Watch Out, Duck on the Way!
• The King of the Cart
• One Cracker for Each
• What Sound Does a Box Make?
• What Do You Do With Wishing Money?