Published:
2023-06-20
Updated:
2023-06-20
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Corduroy
Corduroy is a 1968 children’s book written and illustrated by Don Freeman, and published by the Viking Press. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children." It was one of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal. The book is about the titular character, an anthropomorphic teddy bear, in a department store searching for a new button.
Publisher: Curt Sheller Publications Code: corduroy
Main Category: Bears Main Instrument: Ukulele
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Corduroy is a 1968 children’s book written and illustrated by Don Freeman, and published by the Viking Press. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children." It was one of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal. The book is about the titular character, an anthropomorphic teddy bear, in a department store searching for a new button.
The book tells the story of a teddy bear named Corduroy, displayed on a toy shelf in a department store. One day, a young girl named Lisa arrives at the store with her mother and spots the bear. She is eager to buy him, but her mother refuses to spend more money. In addition, she notices that the bear is missing a button from his overalls and points this out to Lisa in an attempt to convince her that the bear isn't worth it.
At night, when the shoppers and the people of the department store have gone (and the doors are closed and locked), little Corduroy (when no one is looking) decides to find the missing button himself and goes on a trip around the department store. He rides an escalator and takes himself to the second floor. There, he finds furniture he has never seen before. Corduroy admires the furniture and crawls onto a mattress from one of the beds. Meanwhile, he sees something small and round. Thinking that one of the mattress buttons is the one he is missing, he pulls hard on it and eventually topples from the bed, knocking over a lamp. The store security guard (in the book called a "night watchman") hears the noise from the third floor, discovers the bear, and returns him to the toy department.