Rosh's Reviews

AUTHOR: Cecile Biccari ILLUSTRATOR: Naïade Lacolomb TRANSLATOR; Jeffrey K. Butt GENRE: Children's Nonfiction PUBLICATION DATE: February 4, 2025 RATING: 2.5 stars. In a Nutshell: An children’s guide about all things monetary, translated from the original French version. Means well, but too unstructured to be more effective, especially for the target age group. This book is a translation of the French book “C’est ton argent! Que vas-tu en faire?” published in March 2024. The French title, translating to “It’s your money; what will you do with it?” sounds quite ordinary. However, the title of the English version appealed much more to me. “Your Money and the World: How to Spend, Save, Donate and Invest Sustainably” made this sound like a good guidebook for kids on how to use their money responsibly and sustainably. The intent is met to some extent, but the content needs much better organisation. As you can see, the differentiating factor is the word “sustainably.” Spend, save, donate...

Author: Grace Wynter Genre: Nonfiction, Economics. Rating: 3 stars. Reading this book reminded me a lot of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s ' Astrophysics for People in a Hurry .' Before the author and his team jump up in excitement (or wonder in confusion at what could connect economics and astrophysics), let me reproduce an excerpt from my review of the above book: “The book aims at providing a “foundational fluency” in astrophysics. It certainly succeeds in that. But you must understand that this is Astrophysics 101, not Science 101. There’s a lot of “foundational fluency” that you already need to have in physics and astronomy before you pick this up. In other words, keep in mind that the title is not 'Astrophysics for Beginners' but 'Astrophysics for People in a Hurry'.” I can simply tweak a few words of the above paragraph and give you the review for this book. In short, this is not Economics 101. Now comes the long version of my review. Economics primarily assumes ra...