Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business

Esphyr Slobodkina
Illustrated by Esphyr Slobodkina
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Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business

Esphyr Slobodkina
Illustrated by Esphyr Slobodkina
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6-8 YEARS48 PAGESENGLISH

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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
  • Appropriate for: Ages 6-8 Years
  • Published date: Sep 04, 1987
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 48
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • ISBN: 9780064431439
  • Dimensions: 8.0" W x 1.0" L x 10.0" H

Esphyr Slobodkina (1908–2002), internationally renowned artist and author of the children''s classicCaps 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.

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