STORIES FOR CURIOUS YOUNG MINDS
Smart Habits Start Small™
The habits behind future money management begin long before children manage money for themselves.
Savvy Sisters Teach uses engaging stories, relatable characters, and shared learning experiences to help young children practice kindness, patience, responsibility, problem-solving, and thoughtful decision-making.
YOUR GUIDE THROUGH FOREST SCHOOL
Meet Grandma Deer
A wise and caring friend to growing minds.
Children are wonderfully curious, and Grandma Deer knows that meaningful lessons often begin with a good question. Warm, patient, and wise, she helps children slow down, notice what matters, and think through problems for themselves.
Whether the lesson is about patience, kindness, money, or making a thoughtful choice, Grandma Deer offers just enough guidance to help children discover the answer—and grow from the experience.
Helping children discover an answer can be far more powerful than simply giving them one.
Welcome to Grandma Deer’s Forest School™
Grandma Deer’s Forest School™ is a five-book children’s series where everyday adventures become opportunities to pause, think, choose, and grow.
With Grandma Deer as their guide, Tillie Turtle, Hazel Hedgehog, Benny Beaver, Freya Fox, and their Forest Friends explore patience, kindness, responsibility, problem-solving, and thoughtful decision-making.
The stories are made for sharing. A caring adult can read them with a child, a beginning reader can explore them independently, or children can turn the tables and read a favorite story to someone they love.
Welcome to Grandma Deer’s Forest School
Learning and Growing Together
Meet Grandma Deer and her Forest Friends as they discover that most mysteries are easier to solve when you slow down, look for clues, ask good questions, and think things through.
Tillie Turtle Takes Her Time
Patience and Persistence
Tillie learns that patience takes practice—and discovers what slowing down, trying again, and taking her time can make possible.
Hazel Hedgehog’s Helping Hands
Kindness and Helping Others
Hazel discovers how much can happen when we notice someone who needs help and choose to lend a hand.
Benny Beaver’s Borrowed Bucket
Responsibility and Keeping Your Word
Benny learns that borrowing something comes with a promise: take good care of it, return it, and do what you said you would do.
Freya Fox Figures It Out
Thoughtful Choices
Freya discovers that when there is a choice to make, it helps to stop, consider the possibilities, and decide what makes sense.
Five stories. Five little lessons. Countless opportunities to learn, think, choose, and grow.
How Will You Explore Forest School?
Every visitor comes to Forest School with a different goal. Choose the path that best fits how you want to share the stories and help the learning grow.
Families and Caring Adults
Share the stories. Grow together.
Read together at bedtime, across the kitchen table, from miles away—or anytime. Explore the Forest School stories and discover simple ways to keep the conversations and learning going.
Books from $11.95
Educators and Program Leaders
Bring the stories into learning.
Use Grandma Deer and her Forest Friends to spark conversations, reinforce positive behaviors, and help young children practice important habits through stories, discussion, movement, play, and hands-on experiences.
Educator resources are being prepared. For information about classroom use please
Organizations and Community Partners
Help Forest School reach more children.
Bring Grandma Deer’s Forest School™ to the children, families, educators, and communities you serve through group purchases, sponsored distribution, and community learning partnerships.
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What Happens When We Share a Story
Sometimes the best measure of a story is what happens after the last page is turned.
“Penny Learns About Pennies is not just a story about finances—it is a story about love. It quickly draws you into the world of Penny and Grandma Deer while teaching valuable facts about money that a young child can easily understand.”
“When my seven-year-old granddaughter was five, I started exchanging bills with her for coins in her piggy bank. After reading Penny Learns About Pennies, I now have a far better way to teach my two-year-old granddaughter the same lesson. I look forward to future books in the series.”
The Adventures That Started It All
Before Forest School opened its doors, Grandma Deer began sharing money lessons with her Grand Deer. These two original stories introduced young readers—and the adults reading with them—to the idea that everyday moments can become meaningful lessons about money and life.
Penny Learns About Pennies
Understanding Money
Penny discovers that even the smallest coins have value—and that learning how money works can begin with a single penny.
’Lil Buck Learns About Saving Bucks
Saving and Planning Ahead
’Lil Buck learns that saving a little at a time can help prepare for something important and make future goals possible.
Our Savvy Sisters Story
Savvy Sisters Teach™ was co-founded by Charlene A. Day, PhD, and Patricia A. Davis, MBA, MS, whose combined backgrounds in health education, behavior change, financial education, and wealth literacy helped shape the organization’s early work. Together, they introduced Grandma Deer through the original Money Adventures of Grandma Deer and Her Grand Deer stories, creating the foundation from which the Grandma Deer learning world has continued to grow.
Charlene A. Day, PHD
Co-Founder, Savvy Sisters Teach™ | Creator of Grandma Deer’s Forest School™
A doctor of public health, Dr. Day brings more than 35 years of experience in health education, prevention, program development, and behavior change to her work. She created Grandma Deer’s Forest School™ and its lovable cast of animal characters to help young children explore important life and money concepts through engaging, relatable stories.
Drawing upon her background in education, prevention, and behavior change, her work reflects a particular interest in how the everyday behaviors children begin developing early—such as making choices, waiting, planning, saving, sharing, and caring for resources—can become building blocks for future money-management skills. She believes that when these early lessons are introduced through stories and reinforced by the caring adults in a child’s life, they can help lay a foundation for lifelong financial wellbeing and success.
Patricia A. Davis, MBA, MS
Co-Founder, Savvy Sisters Teach™
Patricia brought decades of experience in corporate finance, financial education, and wealth literacy to the founding of Savvy Sisters Teach™ and its original Grandma Deer stories.
Savvy Sisters is dedicated to enlightening both young individuals and adults on concepts and ideas concerning health and wealth. We invite you to join this vibrant community where we strive to simplify these complex subjects, breaking them down into easily digestible bits. Our ultimate goal is to cultivate a deep appreciation for reading and instill lifelong positive habits and behaviors.