I want to start this blog post by telling everyone who reads our story and our opinions thank you so much. The support we have received has been absolutely heart warming and kind.

Anyways, you want to know about the Tuttle Twins. We are not going in order with these books ( I know I know there is an order for a reason), we are talking about money in math and money is the topic for social studies for right now. So the Creature from Jekyll Island fits right into our social studies curriculum.

I must say I love this book. It brings money and inflation down to a child like understandable level for our 1st and 2nd graders. I have said this before about that this book series is very conservative, but knowing about our government, money, and law is not something that we consider a political thing, we believe it is something we should be teaching our children about. So conservative or not, to me this book is incredibly important.

My kids have always looked at me crazy when I say things like “woah that is expensive,” or “we are going to have to save awhile for that.” I believe this book will help them understand why I say these things.

If you think this book will teach your kids the differences between coins and dollar bills, it will not. It teaches about the government and banking side of money. It does show the ugly monster side of our government when related to money, but it shows that people can help change that as well. This is definitely a social studies book, please don’t expect it to be any other thing.

We are lucky to live so close to Jekyll Island, and I think we may try to make a trip to the Jekyll Island Club Hotel to see where the creatures once were.

I also can see as my children get older, rereading these books in our history classes because they will fit right in. These books are so well written that your children will understand the book as a total but as they get older they will take more and more pieces and be able to research about those topics. I am just incredibly and excited that we will be able to use these books for years to come. These are worth the investment.

They get a gold star from us,


Brittany