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Corduroy
Corduroy
Corduroy
by Don Freeman and Richard Peck

Corduroy has been on the department store shelf for a long time. Yet as soon as Lisa sees him, she knows that he's the bear she's always wanted. Her mother, though, thinks he's a little shopworn-he's even missing a button! Still, Corduroy knows that with a bit of work, he can tidy himself up and be just the bear for Lisa.  And where better to start than with a quick search through the department store for a new button!

Age: 2 Year-olds | Title: Corduroy  |  Author: Don Freeman and Richard Peck  |  Publisher: Viking Children's Books

Corduroy has been on the department store shelf for a long time. Yet as soon as Lisa sees him, she knows that he's the bear she's always wanted. Her mother, though, thinks he's a little shopworn-he's even missing a button! Still, Corduroy knows that with a bit of work, he can tidy himself up and be just the bear for Lisa.  And where better to start than with a quick search through the department store for a new button!

Check out the adorable story of a slightly defective department store teddy bear in this Indies Choice Book Award winner, Corduroy. The pictures are colored sketch drawings, which frequently fade to white or dark shades and keep color only around Corduroy to help emphasize him. The story involves a clear plot of Corduroy wanting to be purchased and brought 'home', while a little girl visits him twice in the story and wants to buy him but her mother says 'no' because he is missing a button and doesn't look new. Corduroy sets out that night on an adventure in the department story looking for his missing button. The pages range from having just one sentence to a whole paragraph and contain plenty of dialogue, offering a chance for you to add fun to the story with different voices for the characters.

The story will spark your child's imagination, as they picture Corduroy alive, having thoughts and hopes, and walking around the store at night. Your child may develop some empathy toward their own stuffed animals, grateful that they've given the stuffed animals a home and wanting to assure them they are loved. Your little one may also empathize with Corduroy's misunderstanding that the escalator is a mountain, or that the sales floor full of furniture is a palace, as they may have had similar thoughts the first time they saw either of those as well. You can also spend some time at the end of the book talking about the main lesson - acceptance. The little girl, Lisa, doesn't care that Corduroy is missing a button and doesn't look brand new; she loves him just the way he is.

I read this book to my niece, Emily, who asked right off the bat what Corduroy was. We hunted down some old corduroy pants so she could see and feel. After reading through the book, she asked if any of her stuffed animals are real. I told her that is up to her and her imagination. She smiled and said "Well, I know Big Baby is real - but I don’t know about the others." Big Baby is a large Strawberry Shortcake doll.

--Audra

Back in the 1970's when I was starting out as a writer for young readers, I did my only story for the very young--my only picture book. I showed the story to my Viking Press publisher, George Nicholson. To my surprise, he decided that Viking would take it. Then he said, "If you could have any artist in the world to do the illustrations, who would it be?" Without hesitation, or much hope, I said, "Don Freeman."
 
How well I recall that moment when George Nicholson said, "We can ask him." We did, and Don said he'd like to illustrate my story, but his own books came first in his working schedule. I'd have to wait, and I said I'd wait as long as it took. I might have waited forever, because Don died soon after, too soon. And so our book was one of his last.
 
More than a quarter of a century later, Toby's intrepid visit to Grandma's house is still spurring me on. Two books of mine for somewhat older readers, A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down Yonder, won the silver and gold John Newbery medals. And what are they about? Two grandkids go off to visit Grandma in her tall and shadowy domain--a big old lady in a big old house full of history and mystery. Now if only Don were here to add the brushwork.
 
--Richard Peck
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