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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0590717758 ISBN 13: 9780590717755

Synopsis

Caps for Sale is a timeless classic beloved by millions...one of the most popular picture books ever published!

This edition completes complete with a charming reading of the story on CD.

Children will delight in following the peddler's efforts to outwit the monkeys and will ask to read it again and again. Caps for Sale is an excellent easy-to-read book that includes repetition, patterns, and colors, perfect for early readers.

This tale of a peddler and a band of mischievous monkeys is filled with warmth, humor, and simplicity and also teaches children about problem and resolution.

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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

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0590717758
• ISBN 13: 9780590717755
• Binding: Paperback