What Is a Contract?

What Is a Contract? is a children’s book about contracts for readers ages 6 and up. Captain Coin and Professor Ledger explore everyday agreements, from trading cards to buying a ticket, and show why clear promises matter.

About this children’s book about contracts

Through short, funny scenes, kids discover that contracts are simply promises the law can help enforce. As a result, they learn to read carefully, ask questions before agreeing and keep their word. The book also notes that rules differ from place to place.

What readers will learn

• Explain what a contract is
• Identify an offer, acceptance and something of value
• Understand why written agreements help
• Know what it means to break a promise

The eBook is available now. Buy it below and start reading online right away from your order confirmation or My account → My books. The paperback edition is coming soon; sign up below to hear when it launches. Meanwhile, the free planet page for this topic covers the same ideas with lessons and games.

Every Wealthonauts book is written to be accurate as well as fun, and each one connects to lessons, games and printable activities on this site. As a result, a story at bedtime can turn into a short learning mission the next day.

Using this children’s book about contracts at home or in class

Read one chapter or spread at a time, then pause and ask what the characters should do next. Afterward, open the matching free lessons below for activities at three age levels. Teachers can pair this children’s book about contracts with the printable worksheets in the Academy.