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Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business |  | Author: Esphyr Slobodkina
Brand: Harper Collins Publishers
List Price: $6.99
Buy Used: $0.01
as of 7/30/2010 07:51 PDT details
Seller: thrift_books
Rating:  87 reviews
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 48
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8.1 x 0.2
MPN: HC-0064431436
ISBN: 0064431436
EAN: 9780064431439
Publication Date: October 31, 1987
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Product Description
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 peddlers efforts to outwit the monkeys in this new, enlarged, and redesigned edition, and will ask to read it again and again.
Amazon.com 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 3- and 4-year-olds will adore. (Preschool and older) --Richard Farr
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Grandkids loved it! March 24, 2010
J. Bohlke (NE USA)
A simple story, simply illustrated, and my two-and four-year-old grandkids loved it! They asked me to read it to them again and again.
Perfect book for an autistic child! March 20, 2010
Y. Deutscher
My child is high functioning autistic and is in kindergarten. I went to one of his classes one day and his teacher was reading this book to the class. I found out how much he enjoyed her reading it and he was very involved in it. She took the freedom to be very expressive with the book and he loved it. He would imitate and say "...caps for sale!" and what the monkeys did and new what was coming and had a big smile on his face. Right away I realized that this book was going to be the next addition to our story time collection. I love reading it to him and my other kids because everybody loves it and gets so involve in the story and I truly enjoy how much HE enjoys it too. I love this book and recommend it to everyone.
Fabulous! February 7, 2010
Bluefish (Dallas, Texas)
My kids LOVE this book! It's whimsical and silly, and just a lot of fun to read. I highly recommend it to anyone.
 Caps Off To Slobodkina February 6, 2010
Mark K. Wickersham (Tianjin, China)
My girls recently inherited Caps For Sale so I decided to read it to them during one of our dinners this past week. Caps For Sale was written over 70 years ago and is based on a folktale. Although this book is a popular read-aloud book that has sold more than two million copies, I was not familiar with it. The illustrations and story are very simple, but I found the book surprisingly amusing. As the title indicates, there are caps for sale. A salesman has 17 caps on his head and walks up and down streets yelling, "Caps! Caps for sale! Fifty cents a cap!" One morning the peculiar salesman walks out to the sticks and finds a great big tree to rest under. When the man wakes up from his nap, he realizes that 16 of his caps were stolen by 16 cap-stealing monkeys. The story does not end there, but I thought I would not spoil the rest of the story in case you are not familiar with it. I found myself a little intrigued as to what would happen next as I read the story. I just started to regularly read stories to my girls, but I do not normally find myself so curious when reading a book to them. Both of my girls really like the repetitive lines spoken by both the salesman and monkeys. We give Caps For Sale six thumbs up!
Children Love It February 1, 2010
N. Concepcion (Jersey City, NJ USA)
My favorite book as a child. I read it all the children in the familiy. They all love it. They really get into it and act along with the story.
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