Kids’ Books About Starting a Business

This delightful picture book releases on September 24. Leena Mo does not like doing chores. She’d rather be daydreaming up new invention ideas and tinkering. While shoveling snow — boring — Leena comes up with an idea for a new invention. She tinkers and creates a robot that sucks up snow. When neighbors see her robot, they want ones of their own, and Leena finds herself running a production line of robots and hiring help. Kids will love this whimsical read.

The Kids in Mrs. Z’s Class is my new favorite early chapter book series. In this one, 3rd grader Rohan Murthy wants to start his own business to raise money for the school’s garden. His mom is an entrepreneurial success, so he also wants to prove that he can be one, too. He decides to run a pet babysitting business, but there’s one giant problem — he doesn’t like touching animals. He’s never cared for a pet before, and he’s not sure he likes them. Can Rohan conquer his fears and run a successful business to raise money for the school garden?

This is the first book in a super fun early chapter book series that currently has three books in it. Wednesday is an entrepreneur, even though she hasn’t technically come up with a business idea quite yet. Her best friend is the future business’s vice president. She’s still brainstorming ideas for the business when she has an altercation with the class Emmas and blurts out that she’s making a Secret Keeper. What exactly is a Secret Keeper? Well, she needs to figure that out soon. I love that Wednesday has two moms, and the series does a great job of introducing and defining business terms for kids.

This is the first book in a middle grade series about entrepreneurship centering girls. Resa’s fifth-grade class is participating in a lemonade stand competition. Whichever group can raise the most money at their lemonade stands gets a special prize. Resa is paired with four other girls in her group, and initially, they struggle to make their differing visions align. Can they create a winning concept for their lemonade stand? Back matter includes entrepreneurial tips. There are currently three books in this series.

This is the third book in the Community board book series. The other books are We Share This School and We Share This Earth. These upbeat, rhyming community board books celebrate the ways children can contribute to and enjoy the communities they’re members of. This one explores diverse families in four types of neighborhoods: suburban, urban, rural, and a trailer park. It’s a great series to gift new babies and toddlers.