Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business (1940)

by Esphyr Slobodkina

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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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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↑)

Indies Picture Book Hall of Fame (2013)

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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 red caps on the very top.

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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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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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