The Kidenomics Series · ages 4–7
Picture books about how the world actually works — scarcity, trade, incentives, and the reason a hundred muffins are worth less than one. Children watch, wonder, laugh, and work it out alongside Bunny and her friends.
The idea behind Book One
So Bunny baked more. Drag to see what happens to what a muffin is worth.
What'll you give me for it?
A shiny stone.
The muffin never changed. Only how many there were.
How the books work
No character explains anything. Bunny doesn't learn a moral — she works something out, and the reader gets there first. The economic terms appear only on the last page, addressed over the child's head to the adult reading aloud.
In Book Three, Bunny is paid a berry for every weed, so she starts planting weeds. She is never scolded and never sly. She did exactly what she was paid to do, and the book lets her be right about that.
Where economists genuinely disagree, the books stay out of it. One title ends with a shared meadow saved by a rule; another ends with private ownership working better. Both are in print, deliberately.
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BOOK ONE
One muffin buys a shiny stone. A hundred muffins buy nothing at all, and Bunny has to work out why.
Supply & demand
BOOK TWO
Mole has carrots and no umbrella. Bunny has an umbrella and nothing to eat. It rains for three days before either of them moves.
Trade
BOOK THREE
Mole offers a berry for every weed pulled from his garden. Bunny is delighted to help. Mole should have been more specific.
Incentives
A message to parents
Every child is born curious. Long before economics appears in a classroom, children are already asking why we cannot have everything, why people trade, and why it is sometimes better to wait.
The Kidenomics Series began from a simple belief: the most important ideas can be introduced long before they are formally taught, and the best way to introduce them is through stories children genuinely love.
Each book holds one idea. Children are never told what to think. They watch, wonder, laugh, and work it out alongside Bunny and her friends.
If these books start a conversation at your dinner table, they have done their job.
Dr. Murali IyengarFather · Economist · Author · Educator