Caps for Sale

“Caps! Caps for sale! Fifty cents a cap!” calls the peddler, walking up and down the streets. He balances a huge stack of caps on his head–gray, brown, blue, and red–all piled on his own checked cap. One day he stops under a tree to take a nap. When he wakes up, the gray, brown, blue, and red caps have all disappeared! The only one left is his own checked cap. Where on earth can the others be?

This book is used with the Blue Book (Grade 1) of Learning Language Arts Through Literature.