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

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... (read more)

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Ed G
  • Rated 5 stars

One of my sons' all time favorites.

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Heather C
  • Rated 2 stars

This illustrations are fun and fanciful but I swear I cannot understand the appeal of this book where a hat peddler naps under a tree and awakens to find a troop of monkeys have stolen his wares. There are soooooo many better books.

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  • Rated 4.082089 stars
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  • Rated 5 stars
 

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  • kaycee59

    kaycee59 said:

    oh my goodness, I was trying to remember books from childhood and I have the exact same memory of Captain Kangaroo. I also remember his read-aloud of Mike Mulligan and Hist Steamshovel, MaryAnn

    posted Wednesday, October 3 2007
  • Herstory

    herstory said:

    Loved listening to Bob Keeshan do his read-a-loud of this book on his children's TV show, Captain Kangaroo, in the 1960's.

    posted Tuesday, September 11 2007
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