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Esphyr Slobodkina
HarperTrophy
Esphyr Slobodkina
Softcover
8 x 10 inches
40
0-06-443143-6
renewed, 1968
3 to 7
2
$6.99
$4.75
Why a beginning reader will enjoy Caps for Sale
A toddler can really experience the joy of reading in this learn-to-read picture book by Esphyr Slobodkina. The words are sparce, large print, and repetitive. The tale of a peddler, some monkeys and their monkey business is sure to be a favorite with your young reader.
Synopsis
Esphyr Slobodkina has recreated an old folk tale about a peddlar selling caps and a band of monkeys who have their own ideas for those hats, monkey business. Ms. Slobodkina's bright colorful illustrations of the gray, brown, blue, and red caps all balancing on the peddlars head and then on the heads of the mischievious monkeys adds to the fun of this book. This classic picture book has been in print for over 50 years.
Description
Caps for Sale was first published in 1938. Since then it has sold more than 2 million copies. In 1958 it won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. Of the 40 pages half are full-page colorful illustrations of the peddler man, his hats and the monkeys.
What others said about this book
"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 heary enjoyment of the troubles of a peddler with a band of monkeys."--The New York Times
