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  2. Caps for Sale - Wikipedia

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    978-0064431439. OCLC. 13008528. Website. capsforsale .org. Caps for Sale is a children's picture book, written and illustrated by Esphyr Slobodkina and published by W. R. Scott in 1940. [1]

  3. Esphyr Slobodkina - Wikipedia

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    Esphyr Slobodkina. Esphyr Slobodkina ( Russian: Эсфирь Соломоновна Слободкина; September 22, 1908 – 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. Slobodkina was a celebrated avant garde artist and feminist in the ...

  4. Margaret Wise Brown - Wikipedia

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    Blanche Oelrichs. James Stillman 'Pebble' Rockefeller Jr. Margaret Wise Brown (May 23, 1910 – November 13, 1952) was an American writer of children's books, including Goodnight Moon (1947) and The Runaway Bunny (1942), both illustrated by Clement Hurd. She has been called "the laureate of the nursery" for her achievements.

  5. Since first graders at Geneva School in Winter Park, Florida have a unit based on the book "Caps for Sale" by Esphyr Slobodkina, the author, an art teacher at the school, began a tradition of painting hats. In this article, the author describes how the students decorated their hats. (Contains 1 resource and 1 online resource.)

  6. 'Committed to her vision': Russian artist Esphyr ... - AOL

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    May 2—Esphyr Slobodkina's work hung in the first modern art museum in the U.S. next to pieces by Pablo Picasso, Juan Miró, Fernand Léger and Piet Mondrian. She was the only woman and the only ...

  7. activities. Similarly, longer repeated refrains in Slobodkina's Caps for Sale (1947) and incremental refrains in Raskin's Ghost in a Four Room Apart-ment (1969) entice children to participate in storytelling (Stewig, 19 78). Thus, as seniors read a wide variety of children's literature they focus

  8. Storytelling: Oral Interpretation in the senior High. School. [77] 6p.; Report prepared at Unive'rsity of Houston. NF -$0.83 HC-$1.67 Plus Postage. In an eleventh-grade unit, students studied and practiced the art of storytelling and then went into elementary classrooms to tell stories to first-grade and second-grade children. Students prepared ...

  9. REPOR T RESUMES - ed

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    today, Caajor Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina perhaps tops them all. Teachers can be almost sure that they will reach their children with this story; that the book will become a favorite sought out and asked for time and again throughout the year. If we look at the nature of its appeals we can learn almost all we need to know