The Tuttle Twins and the Food Truck Fiasco
The Tuttle Twins and the Food Truck Fiasco
Recommended Ages: 5-12
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Ethan and Emily Tuttle witness their food truck friends being affected by unfair laws, so they embark on a campaign to win public support and overturn the laws that shut them down.
Your children will learn how disruptive businesses sometimes must fight against their crony competitors—the ones with friends in government who implement laws to protect them from innovative upstarts.
What age is this for?
What age is this for?
The Tuttle Twins and the Food Truck Fiasco is recommended for ages 5-12.
What topics does it cover?
What topics does it cover?
The Tuttle Twins and the Food Truck Fiasco covers topics like:
- Free Markets
- Economics
- Entrepreneurship
What will my child learn?
What will my child learn?
- Understand how rules and regulations affect small businesses
- Learn how entrepreneurship creates opportunities
- Recognize how competition benefits customers
- See how barriers can make it harder to succeed










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The Tuttle Twins and the Food Truck Fiasco
The Tuttle Twins and the Food Truck Fiasco
While the subject of economics may not be of interest to a wide range of people, it is something that each of us experiences on a daily basis.
Learn alongside the Tuttle Twins how some laws disrupt the economy, helping some businesses while hurting others, and what one person—or two!—can do about it.
Based on Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
- Why are established businesses tempted to support laws that punish their competitors?
- Should a city council be limited as to what regulations or laws it can require people to obey?
- Why does competition result in better or less expensive goods and services?
- How can we work to change the laws we think are unfair?
Fun and engaging stories
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A Closer Look at What You Get:
What are Individual Rights?
In a fun adventure that involves pirates and plunder, Ethan and Emily learn about law, liberty, and limited government. Unlike any other book, this story helps children learn what individual rights are and how true laws help protect them from bad guys.
This book is based on The Law by Frédéric Bastiat.
Why are Free Markets Important?
Ethan and Emily have taken for granted the many things they use: clothes, cars, homes, backpacks—even something as simple as a pencil. On their trip to an amazing factory, the twins learn about the miracle and importance of the free market.
This book is based on I, Pencil by Leonard Read.
How Does Money Work?
The twins learn all about bartering, inflation, and money as they uncover the mystery of how a powerful creature is stealing their grandparents’ hard-earned savings, and how they can fight back to protect the money they make in their family business!
This book is based on The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin.
What is Protectionism?
Teaming up with their food truck friends, the twins discover laws that create unfair advantages and protectionist policies. Ethan and Emily learn about competition as they launch a campaign to win public support and overturn the bad regulations.
This book is based on Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt.
Should the Collective Control Us?
Unintended consequences abound as the Tuttles uncover why the new Surfdom resort is causing their favorite beach to lose public interest. Uncle Ben joins the twins to help shine some light on the collectivist and central planning problems.
This book is based on The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek.
Does the "Golden Rule" Work?
Summer camp turns into a heated rivalry between competing teams, but Chief Ron helps the twins and their teammates learn the dangers of aggression, revenge, and blowback—and why peace and friendship are important principles!
This book is based on A Foreign Policy of Freedom by Ron Paul.
Why is Socialism so Harmful?
In a world filled with consumers, what happens if the producers give up and leave? And how can people better practice personal responsibility and not have a sense of entitlement about the things they think they deserve? Join Ethan and Emily to find out!
This book is based on Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Can a Child Be an Entrepreneur?
The twins recognize an opportunity and, with the support of family and friends, navigate the exciting and tiring world of entrepreneurship! Your kids will learn the ins and outs of becoming a business owner with this inspiring story!
This book is based on Competition and Entrepreneurship by Israel Kirzner.
Persuasion vs. Coercion
In a world where dystopian fiction might seem too close to reality, Ethan and Emily learn that the fate of the future depends on thinking of ways we can work together peacefully, to build a better society without relying on coercion and the state.
This book is based on Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard.
What is True Education?
After hearing award-winning teacher John Taylor Gatto discuss some problems with schooling and share a vision for how children are best educated, the Tuttle family decides to embark on a new learning adventure to discover true education.
This book is based on The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto.
Why We Act the Way We Do
After making some money, the twins decide to loan it out to other kids like them in order to earn some interest—and in the process learn about risk, bailouts, subsidies, and what happens when their children’s market gets messed up.
This book is based on Human Action by Ludwig von Mises.
Truth Overpowers Fear
Through a fun fantasy game, the twins learn how fear and ignorance lead to despots gaining power over us, and how the truth plays a pivotal role in defending our freedoms and helping other people succeed.
This book is based on Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs.
Be Your Best Self
With their Uncle Brock struggling to figure out how to build a successful life, the twins create a boot camp experience to whip him into shape with 12 rules he should practice for good living.
This book is inspired by 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson.
Should We Reward Merit?
At the most unusual track meet they’ve ever seen, the twins face a new challenge: a competition where effort and ability take a backseat to identity and circumstances.
This book is inspired by Marxism: Philosophy and Economics by Thomas Sowell.
Resources to Build a Brighter Future
As a parent, you want to ensure that your children learn about personal freedom, sound money, individual rights, entrepreneurship, and other important concepts.
We understand that it can be challenging to find quality educational resources that align with your values and help you teach the principles of freedom. It can feel like you are swimming against the tide, constantly worried about the biases, censoring, and dilution of truth in education and the media.
You don’t have to figure it out alone. We created the Tuttle Twins books to teach kids about individual liberty, free market economics, and entrepreneurism, empowering parents to give their children a foundation of freedom that will help them build a brighter future.
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Teach freedom-based concepts that most of us were never taught as kids. Find stories and guide books that explain natural rights, free markets, sound money, entrepreneurship, inflation, the Golden Rule, and more!
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The Tuttle Twins and the Food Truck Fiasco
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