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Thank you for helping to bring an Amazing Children's book to Life!

Meet David

I want you to meet our main character, David Kareem, a Muslim kid who's just earned a dollar for his allowance and wants to spend his money on some tasty candy like any other normal child, especially my own. But after he spends it, David is curious to know exactly where it went. So he asks his father, "Daddy, where did my dollar go?" David's father Brother Amir takes him on a journey throughout the community to see how the dollar he just spent makes its way to other businesses. 

We often preach about our children learning the importance of money, group economics, and developing healthy spending. How awesome would it be to have a fully illustrated picture book that explores how a dollar travels from hand-to-hand?!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoNzuZceVwU

David's Dollar is a book 4 years in the making. I wasn't quite sure how to bring the concept I had buried in my head to life until this past year. It would seem like being a poet would make it easier. It didn't (laughs). Nevertheless I was finally able to write a compelling children's book about spending local and in our community. 

Bringing group economics into an easy story will help children in the critical thinking areas of:

1. Drawing Conclusions

2. Making Inferences

3. Making Predictions

Why Invest in David's Dollar?

Listen to the experts:

Beth Kobliner, author of the New York Times bestseller Get a Financial Life, and a member of the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability who spearheaded the creation of Money as You Grow, which offers age-appropriate money lessons for children. 

Kobliner says children as young as three years old can grasp financial concepts like saving and spending. And a report by researchers at the University of Cambridge commissioned by the United Kingdom’s Money Advice Service revealed that kids’ money habits are formed by age 7.

Telling Our Stories has been My Dream

As a Black Muslim father it's always been important to have things to read to my children that featured people who represented them. Being a writer has given me the ability to put a book in the world that adds to the diversity in children's literature many parents look for. 

Eric Velasquez, award winning author and/or illustrator agrees, "Once children see themselves represented in books, their existence is validated, and they feel that they are part of the world.” 

Anything helps.

Thank you,

Tariq Touré