Posted by Miller on April 1, 2003, at 13:16:44
My favorite children's book when I was really young was a book called "Corduroy" It is about this teddy bear in a department store. He can't figure out why nobody will buy him. One day a little girl comes into the store, picks him up, looks him right in his eyes, and says she wants to take him home. The girl's mother tells her "no" because the bear is missing a button off his overalls and he is very expensive. That night when the store closes, the bear leaps off the shelf in search of a button. He looks everywhere. He ends up on the escalator going to the next floor. He is on the floor with all of the mattresses. He sees all the buttons on the mattresses and he gets so excited. He jumps up on a bed and tries to get the button. It, of course, is sewn on. He pulls and pulls until it finally releases. It sends him flying into a lamp, which he knocks over. The security guard finds the bear and brings him back to the toy department. The bear, disappointed, falls asleep for the night. Right at opening the next morning, he is just waking when the same little girl comes in and buys the bear with the money she has been saving. She runs all the way home with him. On the way home she names him Corduroy. He finds himself in her bedroom being truly loved as the little girl sews a button on his overalls. He found his home.
**To all fellow Babblers I hope you find your "home".** :)
-Miller
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