Money Is Not a Mystery

Ten-year-old Mira wants a bicycle. Diya wants to build something of her own. Aarav wants to actually earn his keep. And their friend Rishi? He just wants a shortcut.Money Is Not a Mystery follows these three friends - and one very opinionated dog named Laddoo - through nineteen bite-sized adventures that turn saving, spending, earning, banks, scams, and even the stock market into stories a nine- or ten-year-old will actually want to read.

This isn't a book that hands over rules to memorize. Inspired by physicist Richard Feynman's insistence on understanding things from the ground up, every chapter builds an idea from something a child already knows to be true - until it belongs to them, and no confident-sounding shortcut-seller can talk them out of it.

Set firmly in an Indian context - rupees, gullaks, UPI, and all - with decision trees, activities, and a running Money Words glossary, this book turns "how do we actually know that?" into a habit of mind that reaches far beyond money.Grab a pencil, not a pen. Smart kids change their minds when they learn something new.

For curious readers aged 9-12, and the grown-ups who want to raise them wiser about money - and about everything else.