Caps for Sale (1 Paperback/1 CD)

Slobodkina, Esphyr

ISBN 10: 1591126975 ISBN 13: 9781591126973

Publisher: Live Oak Media (NY), 2004

Synopsis

An itinerant cap salesman awakens from a restful nap to find his wares confiscated by a band of feisty monkeys.

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: Live Oak Media (NY)
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1591126975
• ISBN 13: 9781591126973
• Binding: Product Bundle
• Illustrator: Slobodkina Esphyr