I used this book for my literature based lesson plan and it proved to be a great way to introduce money and math for upper elementary students. If You Made a Million is written by David M. Schwartz and illustrated by Steven Kellogg.
This book showed how many pennies, nickles, dimes, and quarters made a dollar, and discussed how much a million dollars would be. It noted trivia such as how tall a million students would reach if they stood on top each others' shoulders.
The book also described simply how banks handle money and how loans work. This is a sister book to How Much is a Million, written and illustrated by the same people.
In a lesson I created using this book, I showed how students can correctly make change from given monetary amounts. This book is highly recommended for any late elementary classrooms.
