Coin Collecting for Kids (Spiral-bound)

by Steve Otfinoski (Author), Jack Graham (Illustrator) "The front of a coin, called the obverse, bears the main design..." (more)

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Product Description
A colorful, kid-friendly book to introduce children to a lifelong hobby, Coin Collecting for Kids encourages children to search for, save, and learn all about many different U.S. coins. Take a tour through the mint and save pennies from four different decades while learning about how coins are made. Slots on every page let kids collect birth-year coins, millennium coins, and twentieth-century coins. Lastly, a gatefold spread will accommodate all 50 wildly popular statehood quarters. Organized by release year, each slot lists the state's nickname, motto, flower, and bird.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Spiral-bound: 10 pages
• Publisher: Innovative Kids (August 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584760494
• ISBN-13: 978-1584760498
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 9.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #296,400 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars our very favorite collection book, October 12, 2003

By	RS123 "rs123" (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

Perfect for that first-collection kiddo. It's been very popular with my first graders and with several kids lucky enough to get it as a present. Very sturdy, too, a big plus. But beware, it turns the kids into coin fanatics! Any new state quarters elicit huge excitement and many happy scenes in stores, etc.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A definate winner!, December 7, 2000

By A Customer

I purchased this for my 12-year-old cousin who had started to collect the 50 state quarters along with stray change as boys do. He stayed up until almost midnight the first night (a weekend, of course), reading and placing coins. He has become so enthused that he took his weekly allowance to a coin shop to purchase some coins. Even the owners of the coin shop were impressed with the book. They said that they had not seen one like it and thought it was great.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great starter book for young coin collectors, December 9, 2006

By	SIH (Birmingham, AL United States) - See all my reviews

This is a great little book for young coin collectors, especially those who are just getting started. It has very sturdy thick "pages" to hold your special coins. It has a place for all 50 statehood quarters, a place for your birth year coins and a place for special coins, like the Indian head cent, the Buffalo nickel, the Mercury dime, the Liberty standing quarter, the Peace dollar and more. It also gives a lot of interesting information about coins like how coins are made, the parts of a U.S. coin, how to grade coins, minting mistakes, fascinating coin facts and even more. My 7 year old daughter has just become interested in coin collecting and this is the first book we bought for her (for Christmas). I think it's going to be a great way to encourage her in her new hobby. I really can't think of anything bad to say about the book. I would buy it again and I would definitely recommend it. I just wish he'd write a book like this on international coins!