Since it was first published in 1940, Caps for Sale has
delighted generations of children. This easy-to-read story about a
peddler and a band of mischievous monkeys is filled with warmth,
humor, and simplicity. Now, for the first time, this timeless
classic is in board book format with an abbreviated text for its
youngest audience. Here is a sturdy book perfect for reading and
sharing with toddlers.
關於作者：
Esphyr Slobodkina the name is pronounced ess-FEER
sloh-BOD-kee-nah was born in the Siberian town of Chelyabinsk on
Sept. 22, 1908.
Esphyr immigrated to the United States on a student visa at the age
of 29. She enrolled at the National Academy of Design, NYC, and in
the 1930s, she worked painting lamp shades and soon after murals
for the WPA. Esphyr was a founding member of the American Abstract
Artists, which began amid controversy in 1936.
In 1937 Slobodkina met the children''s author Margaret Wise Brown.
In an effort to find work as an illustrator, Slobodkina wrote and
illustrated a story with collage called Mary And The Poodies to
present to Brown. This began a new career for Slobodkina, who
illustrated many children''s stories for Ms. Brown including Sleepy
ABCs and the Big and Little series while still continuing her work
as an abstract artist.
In her autobiography, portions available through this web-site
Ms. Slobodkina wrote, "When Margaret died, I was left without a
writer, and since she always insisted that she liked the way I told
my stories, I took a deep breath and began to send them to my
agent." Ms. Slobodkina took her responsibility as a children''s book
author seriously. In her memoir she wrote: "The verbal patterns and
the patterns of behavior we present to children in these
lighthearted confections are likely to influence them for the rest
of their lives. These aesthetic impressions, just like the moral
teachings of early childhood, remain indelible."
Caps for Sale was first published in 1938. Since then it has sold
more than two million copies. Today it is considered a children''s
book classic as generation after generation pass the story along to
new readers. In sales it ranks with such classics as Good Night
Moon, according to Publisher''s Weekly.
Caps for Sale, won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 and is
memorialized in a painting by Ms. Slobodkina on permanent
exhibition in the West Hartford Library, CT.
Ms. Slobodkina wrote and illustrated numerous other books,
including Mary and The Poodies 1937, The Wonderful Feast, 1955,
The Clock 1956, The Long Island Ducklings 1961, and Pezzo the
Peddler and the Circus Elephant, which was first published in 1967
and was reissued in 2002 as Circus Caps for Sale, to name a
few.
At the age of 88, Esphyr''s primary focus became overseeing the
production of musical storybook cassettes of all twenty of her
children''s books.
At age 90, Esphyr designed a mini museum in Glen Head, Long Island,
NY through her Slobodkina Foundation as a place where guests can
visit and view more than 200 works of art, her handmade dolls and
jewelry, as well as her complete collection of children''s
storybooks, including some original illustrations.
Famed artist and author Esphyr Slobodkina was a leader of the
abstract movement in the United States from the 1930s until her
death at age 93 in July 2002.
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