Shape your kids’ financial future!
What if learning about money could be fun?
A SMART WAY TO START is a rhymed book series that offers financial literacy for kids.
In 5 easy steps, your child will learn to earn, save and spend mindfully, discovering how money choices impact our world.
Shape your kids’ financial future!
What if learning about money could be fun?
A Smart Way To Start offers financial literacy for kids.
Spend many great moments with your child with this book series. Thoughtfully written in rhymes and beautifully illustrated in watercolours. Your child will learn to earn, save, and spend mindfully, discovering how money choices impact our world.
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Our mission
OUR MISSION is to empower children to develop good money habits that will shape their financial future. We want girls to become more confident in talking about money, and boys to support equal pay, so the next generation can enter the workforce on equal terms, equipped with the money skills they will need for life and empowered to create a sustainable future.
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A SMART WAY
TO START
s about earning money and equal pay for all girls and boys
A SMART WAY
TO SAVE
is about saving and why money in a piggy bank can’t grow
A SMART WAY
TO SPEND
is about spending money and learning to make wise choices
A SMART CHOICE
TO MAKE
is about the impact our money choices have on our world
A SMART WAY
TO START DOING GOOD
is about the 17 sustainable development goals
Who are we?
The idea for rhymed children’s books on money, ethics and sustainability comes from Zurich-based author, Dr. Mara Catherine Harvey. Mara is a senior manager in finance with over 20 years of experience, and is an active advocate for gender equality. Her deep conviction is that daily money decisions are the most untapped source of positive change, to shape a more sustainable future for our children. Working with her wonderful illustrator, Mariajo Ilustrajo, AOI World Illustration Award winner 2020, she brought the book series to life to empower children across the globe and for all parents to enjoy!
Empower your child and continue its financial education with the other books in our series. Our books help busy parents to educate their children on money and values from an early age, to give them a head-start in life and prepare them for their financial future – it’s short, simple and fun.
The books are suitable for boys and girls alike, and are dedicated to all parents who want their children to grow up financially confident, with strong money ethics and empowered to shape a sustainable future
Many girls’ and boys’ minds have already been set to succeed
Grab your free E-book
WE ARE GIFTING to all parents the digital version of Book 1, to give every child an opportunity to start its financial learning journey with Marty & Francis.
- Every child can learn money skills that will shape hers/his financial future
- Each girl can become more confident in talking about money and asking how much a chore is worth – a negotiation skill many girls lack.
- Each boy can learn to earn and to support girls in receiving equal pay for a same chore done equally well.
- Every parent can enjoy precious moments with their child, conveying important money lessons with easy rhymes and beautiful watercolour illustrations.
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