Caps for Sale

Caps for sale and other Great Tales

Esphyr Slobodkina’s award-winning children’s books have delighted children and parents for generations. Caps for Sale is a particular favorite, as is Sleepy ABC, which was written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Slobodkina. Please click on a thumbnail below to view sample pages and learn more about each text.

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Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business, written and illustrated by Esphyr Slobodkina. First published in 1940 by William R. Scott Inc. Reprinted in 1996 by HarperTrophy.

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 peddler's efforts to outwit the monkeys in this new, enlarged, and redesigned edition, and will ask to read it again and again.

Caps for Sale is the recipient of the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award and is a Reading Rainbow Book.

Also available in audio form and in the following languages: Spanish, Afrikaans, Chinese, French, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Xhosa.

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