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Title: Corduroy by Don Freeman ISBN: 0-670-24133-4 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: March, 1968 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.76 (45 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Both you and your kids will love Corduroy
Comment: There's something about kids books that, at a certain level, is inexplicable. Corduroy is a nice little story about a toy bear roaming around a department store at night searching for his lost button and then being acquired by a little girl. The story is sweet, and the books illustrations are vivid, colorful and warm.
The same can be said about a lot of books, many of which we owned over the years. Yet the kids still go back over and over (and over and over...) to a few cherished favorites, and, in our family, Corduroy was one of those favorites.
For a while I thought it was just our family that felt this way about the book, bus when friends of the kids came by they knew Corduroy immediately--and he was on their night time reading lists as well.
Enchantment is a dynamic all its own--and this book, for whatever reason, enchants. Buy it--neither you or your kids will ever forget Corduroy.
Rating: 4
Summary: A toy's point of view
Comment: Corduroy is a toy bear in a large depatrment store. Becasue of his missing a button no one wants to buy him. Corduroy takes a magical adventure searching for a button for his pants so someone would buy him. This story is humorous and supports an idea of friendship at the end. Children love this book because it is relation that they can compare to!
Rating: 4
Summary: Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear
Comment: Children have been fascinated with the idea of dolls and toys that can talk and move, from the Newbery winning, "Hitty: Her First 100 Years" to the more contemporary (and better known) "Corduroy". This particular tale focuses on a bear, his small unassuming quest, and the girl that eventually becomes his friend. The book feels more like, "The Velveteen Rabbit" than "Toy Story", but kids will quickly come to enjoy (or at the very least, understand) Corduroy's wish for a child to love him.
Living in a department store with other toys and dolls, Corduroy is a stuffed teddy bear in overalls. One day a doe-eyed girl and her patient mama spot the bear and the child is instantly entranced. Unfortunately, her mother points out that the bear is a little worn down and is even missing one of the buttons on its overalls. Upon hearing this, the bear is distressed and resolves to, that night, locate the missing item. After taking an unexpected ride up the escalator, Corduroy finds himself in the store's bedding area. He tries (unsuccessfully) to prise a button off of a nearby mattress, but succeeds only in alerting the local night watchman to his presence. The next day, however, the girl returns with her own allowance money and quick as a wink purchases the bear, missing button and all. She even sews a new button back onto his overalls, and the two are fast friends.
The book, when you look at it closely, almost seems to resemble a series of woodcuts, painted with watercolors later. I don't know if this was the case, but if so the author/artist, Don Freedman, is certainly adept. I've never seen woodcut faces as well presented as the ones here. People are smooth and rounded, and Freedman apparently doesn't have any problems with round curves. Moreover, I was impressed that the little girl and her mother that view Corduroy are black. Originally published in 1968, this was a bit of a big deal back in the day.
Today, the story of the little bear who wanted a friend is as poignant and simplistic in its telling as it was when first it came out. Anyone who read (or had read to them) this book as a child will instantly remember the scene of Corduroy tugging and tugging the button on the mattress in an attempt to remove it for himself. It's a sweet story all in all. I think people feel a great deal of affection for "Corduroy" because they can identify with the little unwanted fuzzy guy. He's a cutie, there's no question.
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Title: Pocket for Corduroy (Picture Puffins) by Don Freeman ISBN: 0140503528 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: March, 1980 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Harold and the Purple Crayon 50th Anniversary Edition by Crockett Johnson ISBN: 0064430227 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: 20 May, 1981 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak ISBN: 0060254920 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 09 November, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Ray Cruz, Judith Viorst ISBN: 0689711735 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 15 July, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats ISBN: 0670867330 Publisher: Viking Childrens Books Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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