The earliest known account of the story may be found in The Wilmington Centinel published in Wilmington, North Carolina January 8, 1789. It won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. Caps for Sale is a popular read-aloud book, because its repetitive text permits children to speak the lines and thus join in the reading experience. It is Slobodkina's best-known work, and has sold more than two million copies. The peddler collects all the caps off the ground and goes on his way. Finally, he waves his own cap in the air, throws it on the ground in disgust and walks away, causing the monkeys to do the same. The peddler tries in vain to get the monkeys to return the caps (first shaking his finger, then shaking both of his hands, then stamping one of his feet, and finally stamping both feet), but they only imitate his actions. When the peddler goes to sleep under a tree, a troupe of monkeys steal all the caps but his own and put them on. Summary īased on a folktale, the story follows a mustachioed cap-selling peddler (unnamed in the book, he is known as Pezzo in the sequel Circus Caps for Sale) who wears his entire stock of caps on his head. Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business is a children's picture book, written and illustrated by Esphyr Slobodkina and published by W.
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