Caps for Sale Board Book: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business (Reading Rainbow Books) - Hardcover

Slobodkina, Esphyr

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061474533 ISBN 13: 9780061474538

Publisher: Festival, 2015

Synopsis

Caps for Sale First published in 1940, this silly story about a peddler and a band of mischievous monkeys has entertained generations of children. Now, even the youngest of readers can enjoy this board book edition, with an abbreviated text that has all the humor and warmth of the original. Full color. Full description

About this title

Review:

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 young children will adore. (Age 3 and older) --Richard Farr

Review:

"From an old folk tale [the author] has fashioned this bright picture book, infusing it with a humor which seems to have sprung from her own hearty enjoyment of the troubles of a peddler with a abnd of monkeys."" --The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Festival
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0061474533
• ISBN 13: 9780061474538
• Binding: Board book
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Slobodkina Esphyr