Blue Chip Kids: What Every Child (and Parent) Should Know About Money, Investing, and the Stock Market

by David W. Bianchi

The essential guide to being smart about money and investing

Blue Chip Kids: What Every Child (and Parent) Should Know About Money, Investing, and the Stock Market is a fun and easy-to-understand introduction to the world of money and investing for kids and parents. Frustrated by the lack of entertaining financial teaching materials for his 13-year-old son, this book is the result of a father’s commitment to pass on one of life’s most important skills. Written by David W. Bianchi—an investor and lawyer with an economics degree from Tufts University—this hands-on resource demystifies the basic principles about money matters and shows what it takes to spend, save, and invest wisely. Filled with simple examples and numerous illustrations, this easy-to-read book discusses money and investing in 100 bite-size topics. For every parent who wants their children to develop the skills to invest wisely and become responsible money managers, regular savers, and to earn money while they sleep, this book is a must-have.

Genres: Nonfiction, Finance, Personal Finance, Parenting

256 pages, Hardcover

First published February 26, 2015

Reviews

[Taylor Bartz · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars! if you know absolutely nothing about money, investing, and the stock market (like myself), then this is a must-read!

[Lena Lim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simple and easy to understand about money, investing and stock market. Learn a few terms from the book.

[Christie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Excellent introduction to financial basics in America, highly recommend

[Rosie Lax · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a must read for children in middle school and up. My teenager and I read this book chapter by chapter and we both loved it.

[Benjamin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't know. I learned a couple things, but it's clearly not aimed at me. If the presentation style is good pedagogy, I'm all in; if not, not. So I'll try to encourage (read bribe) my admittedly younger kids to check it out and see how it goes.

The thing in Chapter 8 (titled "Analyzing Companies") about Tesla's P/E being zero because they had no earnings drove me up the wall. After "any stock price divided by zero will always be zero", I kind of checked out for the rest of the book.

my favorite quote: "Never become partners with someone you don't trust and don't respect. It will lead to nothing but problems."

[Cathy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I got in about 60 pages and it got too complicated for me. The title said "kids" and I thought about my grandkids who are always looking for ways to make money. I discovered that this book was written for high-school students.

[Viet Nguyen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book provides an introduction about various finance topics for kids. The topics are introduced up to definition level only, but I'm glad that I learnt a few things more after reading this book.

[Zhuo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good enlightenment educational financial book

[Victorious VKG]

I learned a lot from this book myself! Definitely not just for kids. I will be using it as a reference book to understand financial terminology, how investing works and everything in-between.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jacob read y12 rated 4 stars...krb 6/27/24

[Bobbie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Got this for my kids to read but ended up reading it myself. Very informative. Never learned this stuff as a teen.

[Emily Oshima]

bye my mom bought this when i was like 12 and i was eating it up like i had money to invest

[Lindsey Berkowitz · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am so glad that my stepdad got me this book for Christmas- it is really shameful, how little I knew of the finance world and what my options are to increase my wealth over a lifetime. This book was written for kids, but I can certainly see why the majority of its readers are adults! I highly recommend!

[Christy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a must read for anyone interested in learning or teaching their kids the basics of money. It offers simple, easy to understand explanations about everything from wages, currency, stocks, mortgages, and more. I learned a lot and am happy to have a resource to reference for my children when they are older.

[Blake · Rating 4 out of 5]

この本の作者が言うように、若い時にお金のことをもっと知っておくというのは絶対に必要だと思う。そしてそれは貯金だけではなくて、運用や投資についても同じことが言える。この本はとても深いレベルの金融に対する理解度を身につけるほど内容が充実しているわけではないけど、浅く広くの入門案内としては完璧に近い。小学校での英語活動と同じように、いきなり文法とか難しいことを学ぶのではなく、とりあえず楽しく触れてみて、興味関心を持ってもらうのが本来の狙い。
大人の読み手には今ひとつだけどらそもそもターゲット読者層が違うからね。

[Rey An · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent book for ALL AGES who want to familiarize themselves with the basics of finance and the stock market. But it goes beyond that, It will introduce you to knowledge of options, Bonds funds etc. I wish that all subjects of life has a book written in this format.

[Michael Jeanmary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pretty informative, it is written in the simplest form but it packs more information than higher level books. Loved it, and will re-read.

[Kaela · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing!!!!!

This is an amazing book and I think that every one that is 12-13 years old should read this and know this stuff

[Leslie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent basic primer on investments. Written for a young teen, but still helpful for an adult!

[Dorothy Greer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book for every teen to read to understand basics of investing. Also good for adults who can't understand all that stuff on the investment websites!

[Manas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book. Taught many lessons on the stock market and finance as a whole. Its truly great for anyone.