Common Sense Note
A timeless story completely suited to young children. The illustrations are bold, bright, and highly appealing.
Common Sense Review
Reviewed By: Mary LeCompte
CORDUROY offers your children a feel-good story line, a memorable main character, and charming illustrations. Bright, loosely drawn pictures feature scenes familiar to many children: shelves of toys, department stores, and bedrooms. The characters' facial expressions of sadness, curiosity, and joy are drawn so that even the youngest children can understand much of the story simply by looking at the pictures.
The classic book also offers the added benefit of subtle lessons in good behavior. Lisa, the kind little girl who buys and befriends Corduroy, doesn't fuss and cry in the toy department when her mother tells her that she may not buy the bear. When Lisa returns to buy Corduroy the next day, she does so with her mother's blessing and the money from her own piggy bank. Lisa looks past Corduroy's missing button and sees a friend to love.
Adults may have fond childhood memories of CORDUROY, and often enjoy reading it with their own children.
From The Book
Corduroy blinked. There was a chair and a chest of drawers, and alongside a girl-size bed stood a little bed just the right size for him. The room was small, nothing like that enormous palace in the department store. "This must be home," he said. "I know I've always wanted a home!"
Plot Summary:
Poor Corduroy! Why won't anyone buy him? Could it be because his overalls are missing a button? Late at night the teddy bear searches the store for his button. He never finds it, but he does find a girl who loves him and gives him a home. Heartwarming and humorous, this is a picture-book classic.
Related Books:
Corduroy's adventures continue in A Pocket for Corduroy. Another lovable Freeman character struts his stuff in Dandelion, the story of an extremely well-dressed lion. Finally, for a story of a boy and his teddy bear, try Bernard Waber's Ira Sleeps Over .
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