Lily Learns about Wants and Needs (Cloverleaf Books ™ ― Money Basics)

I used this book (and the others in the series by the same author) to create a Money Smart kids program in our Day Camp program (5-10yr olds). The books are good introductions to the topics and help kids understand the ideas. We have used some of the activities in the books as the projects we do with the kids. We started this last summer (2016) and repeated this again (2017) and the kids were still interested in seeing the books again. Fun story. When we start camp we talk about money in general (where you get it, what it looks like). When we asked each kid what you buy with money most listed "food", "clothes", "water", and such. Then one kid said "toys!". Two kids responded, "that's a Want not a Need!" Awesome!

I bought this as part of a present for a 4 year old so that she can start to understand money in positive ways. Very cute book with caregiver participation guides in the back and additional resources listed for additional learning. I think parent conversations are needed with this book as you read it since just reading it alone won't help the child to fully understand the difference between a want and a need but this is a great starting point for their learning and caregivers should be participating with the child anyways.

This is a great book to support a unit for a Kindergarten/Grade 1 Social Studies unit on 'Needs and Wants'. The text level is a little more difficult than Needs and Wants by Gilla Olson or Wants Versus Needs - A Place to live by Linda Staniford, but the pictures are very engaging and encourage classroom discussion. I would suggest reading this book after reading the other two books previously mentioned.

Cute book. Good way to start introducing “wants” and “needs” to your young kids.

Used it for a lesson. It was a great book.

I bought this for my Kindergarten classroom. The book has great pics and great info that the kids can understand. Thank you!

This is an awesome book that I use to teach needs and wants. I love all of the Cloverleaf products but this one in particular is just perfect! It goes into a story that proposes a problem for one of the characters that needs a solution (one of the best way to teach in the earlier grades). It also goes ties into spending and saving as well as goods and services.

I am currently in Field for teaching and I had to write a lesson plan about wants and needs. This book breaks it down to where the students understand. The kids loved this book and so did my mentor. I will be using this book in my future class.

This is a great collection to our books which differentiate between needs and wants. The twins loved reading about the main character