Caps For Sale (75th Anniversary Edition)

Author(s): Esphyr Slobodkina

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Caps for Sale is a timeless classic beloved by generations of readers-now celebrating its 75th anniversary! This story about a peddler and a band of mischievous monkeys is filled with warmth, humor, and simplicity and teaches children about problem and resolution. Children will delight in following the peddler's efforts to outwit the monkeys and will ask to read it again and again. Caps for Sale is an excellent easy-to-read book that includes repetition, patterns, and colors, perfect for early readers. 

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"From an old folk tale [the author] has fashioned this bright picture book, infusing it with a humor which seems to have sprung from her own hearty enjoyment of the troubles of a peddler with a abnd of monkeys."" --The New York Times

Esphyr Slobodkina (1908-2002), internationally renowned artist and author of the children's classic Caps for Sale, was among the first female American artists to explore abstraction and the first to use collage in American storybooks. She studied art in Russia and China before immigrating to the United States in 1928. She was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists group, and her work is represented in prominent museum collections across the country.

General Fields

  • : 9780064431439
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
  • : 0.15
  • : January 2010
  • : 253mm X 200mm X 5mm
  • : September 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Esphyr Slobodkina
  • : Paperback
  • : Esphyr Slobodkina
  • : en
  • : 813.54
  • : 3-7
  • : 48
  • : YFB
  • : colour illustrations