Corduroy

Title: Corduroy
Author: Don Freeman
Publisher: Penguin Group
Copyright: Don Freeman 1968
Pages: 40
Ages: 4-8
Genre: Picture Book

Summary:
Corduroy is a bear in a department store. Day by day people come and go, but no one wants a bear in green overalls. Until one day a little girl sees him and wants him. She asks her mother if she can have him but her mother is busy and tells her that she’s already spent too much and that he’s missing a button.
Corduroy didn’t know he’d lost a button, so he decides to go search for it. He goes up the mall’s escalator which he thinks is a mountain. In the furniture department, he believes he is in a palace. And when he gets to the beds, he decides he’d like to sleep in one. Immediately he sees a button. He tries to get it, but falls off the bed. Then the night guard comes and takes Corduroy back to the toy shelf.
The next morning, Corduroy is waking up and the little girl is staring right at him. She tells him that he’s going to be her bear, and she takes him home. She takes him home and runs to her room. Corduroy recognizes that they’re in a home. And he thinks “I know I’ve always wanted a home.”

Recommendation:
I would recommend this book to everyone.

Potential Problems:
I do not see any problems with this book.

My Reaction:
I liked the illustrations in this book and the story was cute as well. But I think the illustrations are by far my favorite. It looks like watercolors were used with ink pen. I really the illustrations, they’re simple but creative.