Corduroy

Description

A picture book classic!
 
One of School Library Journal’s “Top 100 Picture books” of all time (2012) 
One of the National Education Association’s “Teachers’ Top 100 books for Children.”

Don Freeman’s classic character, Corduroy, is even more popular today then he used to be when he first came on the scene in 1968. This story of a small teddy bear waiting on a department store shelf for a child’s friendship has appealed to young readers generation after generation.
Have you ever dreamed of being locked in a department store at night? The endearing story of Corduroy paints a picture of the adventures that might unfold (for a teddy bear a minimum of) in this type of situation. When the entire shoppers have gone home for the night, Corduroy climbs down from the shelf to look for his missing button. It’s a brave new world! He by chance gets on an elevator that he thinks must be a mountain and sees the furniture section that he thinks will have to be a palace. He tries to pull a button off the mattress, but he ends up falling off the bed and knocking over a lamp. The night watchman hears the crash, finds Corduroy, and puts him back on the shelf downstairs. The next morning, he finds that it’s his lucky day! A little girl buys him with money she saved in her piggy bank and takes him home to her room. Corduroy comes to a decision that this must be home and that Lisa will have to be his friend. Youngsters will never get tired of this toy-comes-alive tale with a happy ending, so you might also wish to are trying to find out Dan Freeman’s next creation, A Pocket for Corduroy. (Ages 3 to 8)