According to a Publisher’s Weekly poll done in 2003, one in three Americans knew the book at that time.Slobodkina seated in front of Irish Elegy, c.1948-50Įsphyr Slobodkina ( Russian: Эсфирь Соломоновна Слободкина Septem– July 21, 2002) was a Russian Empire-born American artist, author, and illustrator, best known for her classic children's picture book Caps for Sale. Over six million copies of Caps for Sale have been sold over the decades. Since 2016 new translations include Tunisian, Thai, Romanian, and Chinese (simplified) and Russian. Timor-Leste is a tiny country in Southeast Asia with no tradition of written language or book-trade. In the 1960s-90s it was translated into Swedish, Danish, Hebrew, French, Chinese/Complex, Afrikaans, Japanese, Xhosa, Spanish, and Korean.Ī tribute to its merits as a useful instrument to learning was emphasized in 2014, when Caps for Sale (one of only 46 books) was chosen by the Ministry of Education in Timor-Leste for inclusion in the diminutive libraries of each school. A remake was released on Weston Woods's 2007 collection Picture Book Classics on DVD, narrated by Rex Robbins.
It was included as one of five stories on the 1986 VHS release Five Stories for the Very Young from Weston Woods Studios, animated using illustrations from the book. Finding nothing published, Slobodkina told and illustrated the tale her own way.Ĭaps for Sale won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958. Slobodkina researched the story in the New York Public library and elsewhere for over two years. In search of a topic, Slobodkina recollected a yarn a cousin had heard in her son’s classroom about a traveling peddler and monkeys. Lacking stories to keep Slobodkina sufficiently employed, employer Brown suggested Slobodkina try her hand at writing text.
It remains a touchstone work of picture-book art and design.) ( Slobodkina’s The Little Fireman was the first American picture book to be rendered in cut-paper collage.
The technique of collage had not been a medium of choice in American children’s books at that time with the exception of Slobodkina’s previous illustrations fashioned for Margaret Wise Brown in the “Big/Little” series. Author Esphyr Slobodkina, noted abstract artist of the twentieth century, produced the illustrations for the story using collage. A Tale of a Pddler, Some Monkeys, and Their Monkey Businessīy Esphyr Slobodkina, Illustrated by Esphyr SlobodkinaĬaps for Sale was originally published in 1940.
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