Tingpur Money · Book 9
The Coin House by the Tree
What a bank doesBANK16 pagesAges 3–7₹225ISBN 978-81-183533-8-6
Plodu’s gullak (money box) is too full, Zoomli hides coins under her pillow, and Tiddu keeps hers in her shoe! Then Papa takes Plodu and Tiddu to the new Coin House by the tree… A story about what a bank does.
Clink, clunk – into the BANK!
Learning outcomes
What your child learns
Ages 3–4
Your child names places to keep money, like a gullak or a bank.
Ages 5–7
Your child can explain that a bank keeps money safe and writes it down.
Builds: Thinking skills and knowing the community. Linked to the development areas in India’s National Curriculum Framework for the Foundational Stage (NCF-FS 2022). See all 10 books.
For grown-ups
After you read
Talk about it
- Where did Zoomli, the twins and Tiddu keep their coins? Were those safe places?
- What did the bank do with the coins?
- Why did Plodu get an extra coin?
Try at home
Visit a bank with your child, or look at a passbook together. Explain that the bank writes down every rupee.
