Synopsis
This is an informational book about the numbers, portraits, buildings, and words printed on paper money, how money is printed and the methods used to foil counterfeiters. Explained with lively text and pictures.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1995-05-01 |
| Size | | Height: | 10.5 in | | Width: | 9.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 13.6 oz |
Publisher's Note
In this companion book to The President's Cabinet and How It Grew, Parker explains the numbers, portraits, architecture, and words on the printed bills in the Treasury. She also looks at the presidents whose pictures are on each bill, how paper money is printed, and methods invented to thwart counterfeiters. Full color.
Industry Reviews
Gr 3-5 Parker concentrates on paper money in its present form, giving brief but sprightly accounts of the people, buildings, and other symbols portrayed on U.S. currency, as well as descriptions of the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve System, and counterfeiting. The biographies are not hagiographic the portrait of Jackson mentions his persecution of the Cherokees, and the sketch of Grant labels his administration ``...one of the most corrupt and scandal-ridden in United States history.'' Each vignette includes an artful mix of useful and trivial facts that will appeal to the intended audience, as will the full-color cartoonlike illustrations. The diagram showing the various parts of a Federal Reserve note is particularly clear and helpful. In comparison, Betsy Maestro's The Story of Money (Clarion, 1993) and Joe Cribb's Money (Knopf, 1990) depict currency from a variety of countries and provide much more material on its development and use. Those titles have more informative illustrations, featuring a wider variety of people. For facts on money in general, Maestro's book will better serve the same age group, while Cribb's, part of the ``Eyewitness'' series, is for an older audience. But neither title equals Parker's depth of information about the symbols on modern U.S. currency. Jonathan Betz-Zall, Sno-Isle Regional Library System, Edmonds, WA
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