Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business
by Esphyr Slobodkina
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Author: Esphyr SlobodkinaBrand: 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: My child loves this book
Summary: 2 Stars
My 4 year old son has loved this book since he was 3 and continues to ask me to read it for him to this day. The story itself is mediocre to me but as long as my child loves it, I can't really complain. The biggest problem I have with this book is the color of the illustrations. I don't understand why nobody else has pointed this out yet before. The man in the book has several sets of caps, "his own checked cap, then a set of gray, brown, blue, and red caps"; however, the colors in the book are not consistent. The blue caps in the illustrations are more of a green hue and the red caps are definitely orange. When my son was younger, I just read the book as it is but now that he is older, he has pointed out the colors do not match the story. So now whenever I read it to him, I have to replace the colors myself so they match the illustrations. It's not the biggest deal in the world but for such a well-known and highly praised book, I would've expected someone to mention this. And also, maybe in the future, the illustrator can correct the colors before production.
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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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