Hi, my name is Anthony, and I wrote this book. I wrote it for kids, and the reason why goes back to something that happened to me when I was about eight years old.

A kid named Bobby lived down the street, and his parents had just bought him a brand new mini-bike. It was the coolest thing I’d ever seen! The first day he had it, all the neighborhood kids went to his house just to watch him ride it up and down the street. The way they crowded around him, telling him how great it was, you would have thought he was giving away free pizza and ice cream!

But me? I didn’t go to Bobby’s house that day – I sat in my driveway, wishing it was me who had that cool mini-bike and all the kids crowding around me. So I went to my mom and asked her if she’d buy one for me. But she was a single mom who worked hard to support herself and my two sisters and me. There wasn’t any extra money in our house. My mom talked to me that day about how I’d have to save my allowance and the money I earned by doing chores, and wait until I’d saved enough to buy the mini-bike on my own. 

But I knew I didn’t want to wait – I wanted that mini-bike right away!

Even though I was only around eight, and I didn’t know a thing about business, I decided that day I had to find a way to earn the money I needed. So over the next couple of weeks I thought and thought about how to reach my goal. I pictured myself riding that mini-bike, and tried to figure a way to get it.

Well, I started out with a lemonade-and-ice-cream stand on a busy corner in our neighborhood. It began making money, so over the next few months I tried some other kid-sized businesses – I sold snacks, flowers, holiday gift baskets and arts and crafts from that little neighborhood stand, earning more and more money.

Did I ever get that mini-bike? You bet I did!

If you’re reading this right now, chances are you’re the same kind of I kid was – smart, focused, and ready to succeed. I created The Little Green Money Machine interactive learning system so that you can make your dreams come true by earning your own money. You don’t need to depend on your parents for money to buy the things you want if you have the skills to do it yourself!

~ Anthony Delmedico