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

Slobodkina, Esphyr

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0590410806 ISBN 13: 9780590410809

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks, 1968

Synopsis

The monkeys steal the peddler's caps while he is asleep. A band of mischievous monkeys steals every one of a peddler's caps while he takes a nap under a tree. 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 peddler's efforts to outwit the monkeys in this new, enlarged, and redesigned edition, and will ask to read it again and again.

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caps for sale: a tale of a peddler, some monkeys and their monkey business by slobodkina, esphyr

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0590410806
• ISBN 13: 9780590410809
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 43