Rebel Girls Money Matters

A Guide to Saving, Spending, and Everything in Between

Illustrated by Morgan Goble
Financial literacy is a key indicator of success later in life, and these habits start forming as early as age 7! Teach your child the building blocks of all things personal finance with this fun and informative guidebook, part of the Growing Up Powerful series from Rebel Girls!

Do they have a full piggy bank they'd like to convert to their very own savings account? Are they ready to start their own scarf-making business? No matter where your Rebel is in their earning, saving, or spending journey, this book offers tried-and-true wisdom to help them be even more informed, independent, and ready for the future.

Through quizzes, tips from experts, and stories and advice from girls around the world, they'll get a firm footing in financial literacy. They will learn:

  • How to create a budget
  • How a credit card works
  • What investing is and how to start
  • When to spend and when to save
  • The truth about pay gaps
  • How to create a business plan
  • And much more!
© Chance Yeh
 ALEXA VON TOBEL, CFP® is the founder and CEO of www.LearnVest.com, an award-winning financial planning site.  A Certified Financial Planner™ who attended Harvard Business School, Alexa has been featured as a financial expert in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Forbes, InStyle, Glamour and on the Today show, Good Morning America, Anderson, Katie, ABC News, Bloomberg News, and more.  Her speaking engagements include Maria Shriver's Women's Conference, SXSW, Fortune Most Powerful Women's Conference, and TEDxWallStreet, and she is a columnist for Cosmopolitan, Inc. Magazine, and Ladies Home Journal. View titles by Alexa von Tobel
Rebel Girls is a global, multi-platform entertainment brand, dedicated to inspiring and instilling confidence in a generation of girls around the world. Rebel Girls started from a 2016 international bestselling children's book, featuring real-life, extraordinary women throughout history, geography and field of excellence, focusing on creators, innovators, leaders and champions. Its community of self-identified Rebel Girls spans more than 100 countries, with six million books sold in 51 languages and 13 million podcast downloads. View titles by Rebel Girls
MORGAN GOBLE is a Canadian children's illustrator currently based in London, Ontario. She received a Bachelor of Illustration from Sheridan College in 2019 and has been working freelance ever since. She's worked on a variety of middle-grade book covers, including Tundra's Alice Fleck's Recipes for Disaster and The Big Sting. View titles by Morgan Goble
"You can't change the world without economically empowering women. Alexa knows this better than anyone! She has spent a great deal of her life developing financial education curriculum and tools to help people make smart choices...I only wish I had a book like this when I was a young girl! This book is a gift that every kid needs to begin the practice of smart financial decisions. Every child deserves to know more about how money works to improve their lives. The earlier this education happens, the better! I'm so thankful that Alexa has written this book to help empower young people to make smart financial choices." - Reese Witherspoon, Author of Busy Betty & the Circus Surprise

"We all strive to raise children who feel strong and capable in the world. Money Matters is the go-to guide for giving girls confidence for all things money, so they can feel financially literate and empowered right from the start." - Dr. Becky Kennedy, Founder & CEO, Good Inside
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About

Financial literacy is a key indicator of success later in life, and these habits start forming as early as age 7! Teach your child the building blocks of all things personal finance with this fun and informative guidebook, part of the Growing Up Powerful series from Rebel Girls!

Do they have a full piggy bank they'd like to convert to their very own savings account? Are they ready to start their own scarf-making business? No matter where your Rebel is in their earning, saving, or spending journey, this book offers tried-and-true wisdom to help them be even more informed, independent, and ready for the future.

Through quizzes, tips from experts, and stories and advice from girls around the world, they'll get a firm footing in financial literacy. They will learn:

  • How to create a budget
  • How a credit card works
  • What investing is and how to start
  • When to spend and when to save
  • The truth about pay gaps
  • How to create a business plan
  • And much more!

Author

© Chance Yeh
 ALEXA VON TOBEL, CFP® is the founder and CEO of www.LearnVest.com, an award-winning financial planning site.  A Certified Financial Planner™ who attended Harvard Business School, Alexa has been featured as a financial expert in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Forbes, InStyle, Glamour and on the Today show, Good Morning America, Anderson, Katie, ABC News, Bloomberg News, and more.  Her speaking engagements include Maria Shriver's Women's Conference, SXSW, Fortune Most Powerful Women's Conference, and TEDxWallStreet, and she is a columnist for Cosmopolitan, Inc. Magazine, and Ladies Home Journal. View titles by Alexa von Tobel
Rebel Girls is a global, multi-platform entertainment brand, dedicated to inspiring and instilling confidence in a generation of girls around the world. Rebel Girls started from a 2016 international bestselling children's book, featuring real-life, extraordinary women throughout history, geography and field of excellence, focusing on creators, innovators, leaders and champions. Its community of self-identified Rebel Girls spans more than 100 countries, with six million books sold in 51 languages and 13 million podcast downloads. View titles by Rebel Girls
MORGAN GOBLE is a Canadian children's illustrator currently based in London, Ontario. She received a Bachelor of Illustration from Sheridan College in 2019 and has been working freelance ever since. She's worked on a variety of middle-grade book covers, including Tundra's Alice Fleck's Recipes for Disaster and The Big Sting. View titles by Morgan Goble

Praise

"You can't change the world without economically empowering women. Alexa knows this better than anyone! She has spent a great deal of her life developing financial education curriculum and tools to help people make smart choices...I only wish I had a book like this when I was a young girl! This book is a gift that every kid needs to begin the practice of smart financial decisions. Every child deserves to know more about how money works to improve their lives. The earlier this education happens, the better! I'm so thankful that Alexa has written this book to help empower young people to make smart financial choices." - Reese Witherspoon, Author of Busy Betty & the Circus Surprise

"We all strive to raise children who feel strong and capable in the world. Money Matters is the go-to guide for giving girls confidence for all things money, so they can feel financially literate and empowered right from the start." - Dr. Becky Kennedy, Founder & CEO, Good Inside

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