Caps for Sale (1940)

by Esphyr Slobodkina

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This book would be good to incorperate math into.

DakotahEpple | Apr 30, 2013 |

Another classic story - about a peddler and some monkeys. Can you guess what they are up to? A humorous tale that is certain to delight al of it's readers! (

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Cfmichel | Apr 12, 2013 |

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ritubohara | Apr 8, 2013 |

A traveling sales man decides to nap with all of his hats upon his head. As he sleeps monkeys come and steal all of his hats. The sales man is smart and get the monkey to see and do what he does. And throw the hats on the ground. This is a great story of monkey see monkey do and the clever people who can use copiers like this for thier own advantage. (

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kmunsey | Apr 8, 2013 |

Old Children's Book. Liked it as a kid, but haven't read it in years. (

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HarperCollins Treasury of Picture Book Classics: A Child's First Collection by Katherine Brown Tegen

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Caps for Sale

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1940

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the peddler

monkeys

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1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up (2009.0202|2009, Ages 5↑)

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To Rosalind and Emmy Jean,
and to their grandfather
who loved to read to them

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Once there was a peddler who sold caps.

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But the monkeys only shook their finders back at him and said, Tsz, tsz, tsz.

So the peddler picked up his caps and put them back on this head-- first his own checked cap, then the gray caps, then the brown caps, then the blue caps, and then the read caps on the very top.

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A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business is a concise story about a peddler who sells caps. Interestingly, he wears all the caps on his head. Tired from traveling, the peddler decides to take a nap. When he wakes up, he finds that all his caps are missing-- only to discover that monkeys are wearing them! This is a hilarious book that young children will enjoy.

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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

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:36:40 -0400)

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A band of mischievous monkeys steals every one of a peddler's caps while he takes a nap under a tree.

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