Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business
School year: Year 1, Year 2
No. of pages 48
Published: 2015
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This book is the winner of numerous awards
This book features in the following series: Reading Rainbow Books, Young Scott .
This book is aimed at children in preschool-3rd grade.
This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.
There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published in 2015 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc .
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.
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This book has been nominated for the following award:
Eb White Read Aloud Award - Picture Book Hall Of Fame
This book was recognised in the Picture Book Hall of Fame category by the Eb White Read Aloud Award. The E.B. White Read Aloud Award was established in 2004 by The Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC) to honor books that its membership felt embodied the universal read aloud standards that were created by the work of the beloved author E.B. White.In 2006 the award was expanded into two categories: The E. B. White Read Aloud Award for Picture Books, and The E. B. White Read Aloud Award for Older Readers. Titles are nominated for the award by ABC booksellers, and then the final decision is made by a committee of booksellers that meets annually in February.
"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
