His bed overflowing with cards, Blue sets out to deliver a yellow card with purple polka dots and a shiny purple heart to Hen, one with a shiny fuchsia heart to Pig, a big, shiny, red heart-shaped card to Horse, and so on. Little Blue Truck feels, well, blue when he delivers valentine after valentine but receives nary a one. Children who appreciate Corduroy-and know their way around a laundromat-will be acritically pleased, as they should be. So Corduroy acquires a pocket-where Lisa puts a card with his name. 'Why did you wander away?' she asks and, speaking freely, he tells her. He barely escapes a toasting in the dryer, enjoys a soap-flake mountainslide, and winds up 'caged' in an empty laundry basket-where he's spotted when his worried girl Lisa returns the next morning. In search of the makings of a pocket, Corduroy crawls into a bag of damp laundry, and, taken for lost, is left behind overnight. But what happens in the laundromat thereafter, just-horrors!-might.

To that extent, and in that respect, this new book about Corduroy is less simple, assured, and satisfying than its predecessor. 'This merry tale gets added interest from.the setting, a multi-ethnic urban neighborhood, of cuddly Corduroy and his pal Lisa, a black child, and her attractive mother.' - Publishers Weekly.The overall-clad stuffed bear who in Corduroy (1968) was unmistakably in need of a shoulder-strap button is put in the position here of overhearing about pockets-the lack of which he hasn't noticed in the absence of a need. Soon, Lisa is sewing Corduroy a pocket of his very own and again all is well in the life of Corduroy. And what do bears do all night in places like this? They ski in the soap flakes and nap in the baskets, of course!įortunately, Lisa returns early the next morning to reclaim her tired little friend. As a result, Lisa and her beloved bear become separated as Corduroy ends up locked inside the Laundromat all night. Pockets! Corduroy doesn't have any pockets! The furry bear's search for a pocket of his own takes him on an adventure filled with the sights, sounds, smells and hazards of the Laundromat. This charming story takes readers into a multi-ethnic, urban neighborhood Laundromat, where Lisa's mother warns her to take everything out of her pockets before washing.

This irresistible childhood classic is a delightful sequel to the original, well-loved tale Corduroy.

A pocket for corduroy by don freeman