GROWING MONEY:A COMPLETE INVESTING GUIDE FOR KIDS

如今是否因为某种神秘的对称法则，使它注定第一个陨灭？
第一个？这是否意味着还有第二个、第三个……
格娜狄亚更忧伤了。有些人深信形势的确会如此发展。如果真是这样，那么奥罗拉世界——这个长久以来她所寄居的家，这个第一个开拓的外世界，势必也会因相同的法则而成为最后一个灭亡的外世界。在这种情况下，或者更糟，她长寿的生命仍将继续下去。这也是无可奈何的事实。
她的目光又在群星间搜寻。只是白费工夫。她根本不可能在闪烁的光点中，分辨出哪一颗星是索拉利行星的太阳。她想它应该比较亮，但是比较亮的星星多得数不清。
她举起手臂，做了个她称之为“丹尼尔手势”的动作。阗黑的夜色没有造成任何阻碍。机器人丹尼尔?奥利瓦几乎立刻出现在她身旁。这机器人是汉?法斯托夫在两百多年前制造的，现在几乎没有任何明显改变。他那颧骨高耸的宽脸，向后梳拢的古铜色短发，他的蓝眼，他那高大、接合细致的完美人形身躯，仍然像当年一样年轻。他也仍然显得冷静而不带一丝情感。
“我能为你效劳吗，格娜狄亚夫人？”丹尼尔语调平直地问。
“丹尼尔，你能告诉我，那些星星当中哪一颗是索拉利的太阳吗？”
丹尼尔没有抬头：“都不是，格娜狄亚夫人。每年这个时候，索拉利的太阳必须到。三二。才会升起来。”
“哦？”格娜狄亚若有所失。她总以为当她想看某一颗星的时候，只要一抬头就可以看到。当然，星星各有各的升降时间，这点她很清楚，“我呆看了半天，原来是在浪费时间。”

From School Library Journal
Grade 4-8-A clear explanation of the theory behind investing and compound interest. Related terms are introduced and defined throughout the volume and anecdotes citing companies familiar to children (e.g., Kellogg's, IBM, Coca-Cola) often illustrate principles. One chapter is devoted to deciphering a financial page in a newspaper. Sample forms illustrate how to record income, withdrawals, and savings, and quizzes measure knowledge and risk tolerance. Black-and-white cartoons and several charts accompany the text. This useful how-to book is the next step for readers of Neale S. Godfrey's Ultimate Kid's Money Book (S & S, 1998) and Betsy Maestro's The Story of Money (Clarion, 1993). Librarians and teachers will want to recommend it to budding entrepreneurs and children who spend money as fast as they earn it.
Kathleen A. Nester, Downingtown High Ninth Grade Center, PA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Book Description
Growing Money answers all these questions and more: ?How do you read the stock pages?
?What's the difference between
stocks and bonds?
?Is there an actual stock market?
?Why do stocks go up and down?
?How can I keep track of investments?
?What's a dividend?
?Can kids invest? Never before has the world of finance been so much part of kids' daily lives. Today there are even kid-friendly mutual funds and many math classes have student investing clubs. It's clear that youngsters want to know everything about mioney梕specially how to make grow! Growing Money will show them to do just that with easy information about savings accounts, bonds, stocks, and mutual funds; fun quizzes that reveal young investor's risk tolerance; and wild facts of success and failure, each with a lesson to impart. Best of all, Growing Money gives readers their own fund of imaginary dollars to invest, along with suggestions for selecting companies that are compatible with their values, tips for reading stock pages, and fill-in charts to trace their earnings and losses. The fundamentals of money management become child's play with this savvy, responsible guide for young consumers!

艾西莫夫(Isaac Asimov,192O-1999) 是美籍犹太人，为本世纪最顶尖的科幻小说家之一，曾获代表科幻界最高荣誉的雨果奖和星云终身成就「大师奖」。以他的名字为号召的「艾西莫夫科幻杂志」，是美国当今数一数二的科幻文学重镇。
「基地」、「机器人」 等系列是艾西莫夫最脍炙人口的代表作。这些看似各自独立的故事，相互贯串起来，竟是一部俯仰两万年的长篇史诗！艾西莫夫特意将科幻场景巨幅拉大，在全银河的背景下架构他独有的科幻世界、藉由银河帝国的兴亡史来讨论人性与政冶、经济、军事等文明要素产生的互动影响。这种宏观视野使他的作品处处闪动著关怀人类未来的笔触，超越一般科幻作品的局限。
艾西莫夫不仅是哥伦比亚大学的化学博士，更是世闻名的全能作家，一生著述多达百七十余本，内容广及科学类的数理化、天文、生物、医学，还旁涉人文类的文学、宗教、史地等。如此渊博的学识使他的笔下世界具备了奇幻的想像与高度的预言性。在他刚开始写机器人小说时，机器人学未发展出来；等到这门科技发展得相当有成果时，几乎每一本有关机器人学发展史的书籍都提到他、他的小说与他发明的「机器人三定律」。这定律几乎成了以后科幻作家创作有关机器人的作品时必须遵循的法则.
艾西莫夫以真确的物质科学及人文现象演绎出他的科幻世界，又杂进侦探与推理的小说技法，使得他的作品情节生动,扣人心弦,让人不忍释卷。