Caps for Sale

My girls inherited Caps For Sale so I decided to read it to them during one of our dinners eight years ago. Caps For Sale was written over 70 years ago and is based on a folktale. Although this book is a popular read-aloud book that has sold more than two million copies, I was not familiar with it. The illustrations and story are very simple, but I found the book surprisingly amusing. As the title indicates, there are caps for sale. A salesman has 17 caps on his head and walks up and down streets yelling, "Caps! Caps for sale! Fifty cents a cap!" One morning the peculiar salesman walks out to the sticks and finds a great big tree to rest under. When the man wakes up from his nap, he realizes that 16 of his caps were stolen by 16 cap-stealing monkeys. The story does not end there, but I thought I would not spoil the rest of the story in case you are not familiar with it. I found myself a little intrigued as to what would happen next as I read the story. I regularly read stories to my girls, but I didn't normally find myself so curious when reading a book to them. Both of my girls really liked the repetitive lines spoken by both the salesman and monkeys. We give Caps For Sale six thumbs up!

 This is an excellent introduction into multiplication. This can be used to help students write story problems as well as solve two step word, problems with mixed operations. Definitely a keeper.

My mother had recently passed and she would read this to me all the time. I was so excited to find this book because I now have four little ones of my own and can pass this great story on to them. I’ve loved this book since I was a child. I highly recommend it