 "Caps for Sale" won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.Other children's works include "The Wonderful Feast" (written in 1928, first published in 1955), "The Clock" (1956), "The Long Island Ducklings" (1961), and "Pezzo the Peddler and the Circus Elephant" (1967), reissued as "Circus Caps for Sale" (2002).In 1948, feeling the need to get out of New York City and having saved some money, Slobodkina built a house in Great Neck, New York and moved there with her mother; they remained in the house until 1977.