About this title: "Caps! Caps for sale!" calls the peddler, until one day he wakes up from a nap to find his caps have disappeared. Fashioned from a folktale, here's "a bright picture book, infused with a humor which seems to spring from Slobodkina's own hearty enjoyment of the troubles of a peddler with a band of monkeys".--The New York Times. A Reading Rainbow Selection. Full color.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
Date Published: 1968
ISBN-13:9780060257781ISBN:0060257784
Description: Slobodkina. Good in Good jacket. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. ILLUSTRATED DUST JACKET WRAPPED IN MYLAR WITH PRICE CLIPPED. INTERIOR PAGES HAVE LIGHT FINGERING TO MARGINS. read more
Edition: None Stated
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers, New York
Date Published: 1968
ISBN-13:9780060257781ISBN:0060257784
Description: Slobodkin. Very Good. No Jacket. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. ILLUSTRATED HARD COVER COVER. INTERIOR PAGES CLEAN, BRIGHT AND TIGHT. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 1947
ISBN-13:9780060257781ISBN:0060257784
Description: Slobodkina, Esphyr. New. Library binding. Cloth over boards. 48 p. Contains: Illustrations. Young Scott Books. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Description: Fair. Ex-Library Book-will contain Library Markings. Help save a tree. Buy all your used books from Green Earth Books. Read. Recycle and Reuse! read more
Description: Fair in Fair jacket. Ex-Library 1985, ex library stamps, pocket in rear, library bar code in rear, hard cover, slight edgewear, light soiling on outer page edges, d.j. taped to book, d.j. is creased, d.j. lightly soiled, label taped to spine of d.j., Color illustrations. read more
Binding: Unknown
Publisher: Harpercollins
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780060257781ISBN:0060257784
Description: New. "Caps! Caps for sale! " calls the peddler, until one day he wakes up from a nap to find his caps have disappeared. Fashioned from a folktale, here's "a bright picture book, infused with a humor which seems to spring from Slobodkina's own hearty enjoym... read more
"My son absolutely LOVES this book. I hadn't read this before (I know, shame on you children's librarian) but I'm glad that I found it at a thrift shop. He calls out with me "Caps! Caps for sale! 50 cents a cap!" I'm sure I will be reading this over and over and over with Jack."
"One of my top five favorite childrens books of all time! The illustrations are wonderful and the story is silly and fun. I loved this book before I saw it on Reading Rainbow but I loved it even more afterward. This is an absolute requirement for your child's library! They will love it for years to come."
"This is a classic for a reason. Who among us doesn't remember being a child and copying the monkeys who copied the peddler? It has everything children love - mischief, logical consequences, a happy ending, and naps. Well, maybe kids don't love naps.
Of course, I've always wondered where the monkeys came in. It never has seemed the sort of countryside you get those."
"Summary: 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
Potential Audience (Reading level): Early / Transitional
Genre: Picture Book / Tall Tales
Topic: Taking pride in personal property, problem solving
Specific Curricular uses: Read Aloud: children can act out the actions in the story. This is a very interactive book.
Social issues the book addresses: Teasing and Bullying
Specific literary elements: Repetition allows for a predictable chain of events. Simple suggestive language helps readers follow story.
Interactions and counter actions of text and images: The author is the illustrator for this book. The pictures help to tell the story. There are only a few colors used and this helps to capture the essence of the story."
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