The Money Class

Best-selling author and television personality Orman's volume is so comprehensive it could be subtitled the New Personal/Family Finance Bible/Handbook/Encyclopedia. Orman (suzeorman.com) presents critical primer-based information as well as detailed how-to steps for whatever financial topic she is covering (improving credit scores, college savings, personal investing, insurance, retirement, etc.). Her advice on teaching children (as young as three years old) how to understand and manage money is worth the price of the CD for all parents and grandparents. Narrator Nancy Linari holds the listener's attention with her engaging presentation. The single improvement of the audiobook for future reference would be the inclusion of a CD table of contents or printing on each CD the specific lesson title(s) covered. This audiobook is required listening for young adults building a retirement nest egg and highly recommended for all adults. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 10/1/10.—Ed.]—M. Gail Preslar, formerly with Eastman Chemical Co. Business Lib., Kingsport, TN