Written and illustrated by Esphyr Slobodkina
Summary: This book tells the story of a cap salesman with a suffering business. He walks around with his wares atop his head – red, blue, gray, and brown caps – as he laments that nobody will buy any of his good, though they are for sale for only fifty cents. With no money for lunch, the peddler takes a rest beneath a tree only to awake and find that his goods have disappeared. Above, in the trees, a group of monkeys have taken the salesman’s caps and refuse to pass them back down to him.
Uses for this book: This book would work well to reinforce counting, addition skills, and problem solving. Students could calculate how much money the peddler would make if he sold all of his caps and how much he would make if he sold different combinations of caps, for instance two blue caps, one gray, and one brown. The teacher could assign different prices for different colored caps and ask students to compute sums. Additionally, this could be taken outside of the classroom. As the crisis arises when the peddler cannot afford lunch, students could investigate how much lunch costs at various establishments and then figure out how many caps would need to be sold to afford a meal. Students could also investigate how much a cap costs today and how many would need to be sold to afford lunch.
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