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

57.1% complete
1940
1972
400 times
No chapters
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464
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Copyright © 1940 and 1947, © renewed 1968 by Esphyr Slobodkina
To Rosalind and Emmy Jean,
and to their grandfather
who loved to read to them
Once there was a peddler who sold caps.
May contain spoilers
"Fifty cents a cap!"
Comments may contain spoilers
Read this book many times both as a kid and to my children.
Synopsis not on file
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Added: 24-May-2003
Last Updated: 14-Jun-2015

Publications

 24-Sep-1987
HarperTrophy
Hardback
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Date Issued:
Cir 24-Sep-1987
Format:
Hardback
Cover Price:
$4.95
Pages*:
48
Read:
400 times
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
306
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-064-43143-6
ISBN-13:
978-0-064-43143-9
Country:
United States
Language:
English
CAPS FOR SALE

Ages 3 to 7

"Caps!  Caps for sale!  Fifty cents a cap!" calls the peddler walking up and down the street.  He balances a huge stack of caps on his head - gray, brown, blue, and red - all piled on his own checked cap.  One day he stops under a tree to take a nap.  When he wakes up, the gray, brown, blue, and red caps have all disappeared!  The only one left is his own checked cap.  Where on earth can the others be?

"From an old folk take [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 band of monkeys."
- The New York Times
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Author(s)

Esphyr Slobodkina  
Birth: 22 Sep 1908 Chelyabinsk, Siberia, Russian Federation
Death: 21 Jul 2002

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