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Sharing some of what you have — and noticing what you were given. It doesn’t have to be money.
Try it: start a kindness jar.by Mark Goldman · illustrated by Koen Setyawan · in collaboration with Tadatoon
Two picture books built on one idea: every coin a child holds can be split three ways. Same three habits, two children, two very different wishes — a dump truck, and a unicorn.
Not a lesson about money — a thing the child actually wants. A dump truck. A unicorn. The rest of the story grows out of wanting it.
Give, save, spend — shown as three small decisions a child can picture, not three words on a chart.
Nobody is told what to do with their money. The child closes the book with a decision to make — which is where the talking starts.
Sharing some of what you have — and noticing what you were given. It doesn’t have to be money.
Try it: start a kindness jar.Small amounts, added again and again, until the pile is big enough for the thing you actually want.
Try it: a sticker for every week.Stopping to choose. Seeing something isn’t the same as deciding on it — and that pause is the whole skill.
Try it: two things, one choice.Buck has his eye on one toy, and not quite enough to buy it. Watching his saving pile grow is where patience turns from a word into something he can see.
Get it on AmazonPenny’s wish is a different one, and so is her way of getting there — but the three jars are the same. Read both and children notice the pattern themselves.
Get it on AmazonBoth books teach the same three habits and share the same free TadaKit — pick the one whose wish sounds like your child’s, or read them together and compare.
Written by Mark Goldman, illustrated in full colour by Koen Setyawan.
Buy on AmazonWhere to pause, what to ask, and how to turn the three jars into a real conversation.
Get itThe give-save-spend jars, a savings tracker and the activities that go with both books.
Open the TadaKitThe Small Habits, Big Futures playlist — short films on giving, saving and spending.
Watch on YouTubeOne email unlocks the printable guide — the TadaKit, the videos and the book links are open to everyone.
Three jars to cut out and fill, a weekly savings tracker, and the shop-and-choose game — the same give, save and spend habits the books tell as a story, now in your child’s hands. Free to print.
Open the TadaKitWe build printable kits, guides and activities around a book’s own characters — the way this one was built around Buck and Penny. Same method, your story.