A princess and her pet discover that while making money can be difficult, keeping it can be even harder. Princess Persephone wants to travel somewhere warm and sunny in a shiny new spaceship, but her father won't give her the money she needs for her dream vacation. Persephone comes up with a great idea to earn cash: dragon rides! Learn the ups and downs of entrepreneurship in this amusing story about working hard and spending wisely. Bair is marching against financial illiteracy with baby steps. Literally. Despite her long career in the most sophisticated levels of fiscal management, since 2006, she's been explaining dollars and cents to Americans who are still getting coins from the Tooth Fairy. Her Money Tales picture books tackle all kinds of economic issues for readers in grade school. Her first, "Rock, Brock, and the Savings Shock," is about twin boys who disagree about how to handle their weekly allowances. Other books in the series address predatory lending, compound interest and more — all in fun, rhyming stories about animals and princesses. Ron Charles The Wasington Post Book Club "Sheila Bair uses illustrations and fun stories to demystify finance for children and the adults who read to them."- AARP The Magazine Sheila Bair has had a long and distinguished career in finance, academia, and government. She is perhaps best known as the Chair of the FDIC during the 2008-2009 financial crisis, when she was twice named by Forbes Magazine as the second most powerful woman in the world. A lifelong advocate for strong financial regulation and consumer protections, she is the author of the New York Times bestseller Bull by the Horns , her memoir of the financial crisis, and is a frequent op-ed contributor and TV commentator, as well as author of several children's books on financial matters. Manuela López is a freelance illustrator living and working in Terrassa, a small city in the northeast of Spain. Since she earned a Certificate of Higher Education in Illustration she has been working on children's books with many local publishers.