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Caps for Sale
Average rating
4 out of 5
Based on 92,783 Ratings and 1,807 Reviews

Book Description
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 th... More
Book Information
PublisherScholastic, Inc.
BindingPaperback (61 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of Pages44
ISBN-100590314017
ISBN-13978-0590314015
Publication Date12/1981
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About Esphyr Slobodkina (Author, Illustrator) : Esphyr Slobodkina is a published author and an illustrator of children's books. Some of the published credits of Esphyr Slobodkina include Caps for sale, Caps for Sale Board Book: A Tale of a Peddler,... more
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9/25/2008 celia Leary said: I love this book - it is so much fun to read out loud. Kids just adore it!
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