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Children’s Books About Financial Ruin

Slate offers a slideshow of children’s books for tough financial times (and a few TV shows, too), which includes The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1881) by Margaret Sidney, Ramona and Her Father (1977) by Beverly Cleary (Mr. Quimby loses his job), the American doll series featuring Kit, Barbara O’Connor’s young-adult novel How To Steal a Dog (2007), Barbara Shook Hazen’s Tight Times (1979), and Leslie Connor’s Waiting for Normal (2008).