Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business

Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business
by Esphyr Slobodkina

Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business
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Author: Esphyr Slobodkina
Brand: HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS
Illustrator: Esphyr Slobodkina
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1987-10-31
ISBN: 0064431436
Number of pages: 48
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Book Review: Classic
Summary: 5 Stars

This is one of my all time favortie books from when I was a child.

Summary of Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business

Caps for Sale is a timeless classic, in print for over fifty years, and beloved by generations of readers. This easy-to-read story about a peddler and a band of mischievous monkeys is filled with warmth, humor, and simplicity. Children will delight in following the peddlers efforts to outwit the monkeys in this new, enlarged, and redesigned edition, and will ask to read it again and again.


Subtitled A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business, this absurd and very simple story has become a classic, selling hundreds of thousands of copies since its first publication in 1940. A peddler walks around selling caps from a tall, tottering pile on his head. Unable to sell a single cap one morning, he walks out into the countryside, sits down under a tree, checks that all the caps are in place, and falls asleep. When he wakes up, the caps are gone--and the tree is full of cap-wearing monkeys. His attempts to get the caps back generate the kind of repetitive rhythm that 3- and 4-year-olds will adore. (Preschool and older) --Richard Farr

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