Trying to show children of any age what it means to use one's resources for someone else's benefit can be made a little easier with quality picture storybooks like these:

	Mama Panya's Pancakes: A Village Tale from Kenya, by Mary Chamberlin. Mama Panya has just enough money to buy ingredients for a few pancakes. When her son Adika invites all their friends to join them, she is sure there will not be enough to go around.
	Mr. Tanen's Tie Trouble, by Maryann Cocca-Leffler. Mr. Tanen loves his ties, but when his school runs out of money to build a new playground, he decides to sell his ties in order to raise the needed money.
	Rosie and the Poor Rabbits, by Maryann MacDonald. Rosie's reluctance to give some of her clothes and toys to other rabbits who are not so well off as she changes after a revealing dream.
	Rent Party Jazz, by William Miller. When Sonny's mother loses her job in New Orleans during the Depression, Smilin' Jack, a jazz musician, tells him how to organize a rent party to raise the money they need.
	The Boy Who Wouldn't Share, by Mike Reiss. Edward, unwilling to share his toys with his sister, has a change of heart after thinking about her reaction.
	The Can Man, by Laura Williams. After watching a homeless man collect empty soft drink cans for redemption money, a young boy decides to collect cans himself to earn money for a skateboard until he has a change of heart.