Stories for Growing
Cover of CorduroyAges 2 to 5
Kindness

Corduroy

Don Freeman

Ages 2 to 5
About this age guidance

Penguin Random House: 2–5 (Kirkus gives no age)

The age tag follows Penguin Random House. Other sources may suggest different ages. This is audience guidance, not an independent reading level.

A mother says her sons ask for it again and again and laugh at Corduroy’s night in the store. She calls it a clean classic and tells Lisa’s story, including the piggy bank and the repaired button.

A department store bear with a missing button goes searching for it at night, causes a small crash, and is put back on his shelf. A girl named Lisa returns with her own savings, takes him home, gives him a bed his size and sews on a new button.

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What children see in the story

Lisa wants Corduroy as he is, comes back with her own money, and then sets up a bed and mends the missing button so he is comfortable.

Why it’s on these shelves

Kindness
Lisa wants Corduroy even though his overalls are missing a button. She comes back the next morning with her own piggy bank money, takes him home, gives him a bed his size, and sews on a button to make him more comfortable.

Why pick it up?

Corduroy goes home with Lisa, who makes him comfortable and mends his overalls.

A note for parents

Night-time wandering is a toy’s adventure in a closed store; the watchman returns Corduroy to his shelf. Parents of very young children may want to know he is alone at night. No sources report fear. No Publishers Weekly review exists; sources are Kirkus, the publisher page and a parent blog. Dated 1968 art and department store setting, mentioned by the parent blog.

Where this recommendation comes from

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A mother says her sons ask for it again and again and laugh at Corduroy’s night in the store. She calls it a clean classic and tells Lisa’s story, including the piggy bank and the repaired button.

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