"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?

From an old folk tale, the author has fashioned this bright picture book infusing it with a humor which seems to have sprung from her own hearty enjoyment of the troubles of a peddler with a band of monkeys.