Synopsis
In 1968, a girl named Lisa fell in love with a little brown bear wearing green overalls with one button missing, and thousands of readers followed suit, making Corduroy one of the best-loved children's books of all time. Now, forty years later, Viking proudly celebrates Don Freeman's classic with a very special anniversary edition. With an extra-large trim size and special features including an embossed cover and four bonus spreads of never-before-seen materials, this handsome volume is a must-have for any Corduroy fan.

Children's Literature
This new edition celebrates a pair of milestones for this familiar, heart-warming classic about a little bear yearning for a home, namely the 100th year since the birth of the author/illustrator and the 40th year since the story appeared in print. Corduroy waits in a department store for someone to buy him but when a little girl wants him, her mother points out that the shoulder strap of his overalls is missing a button. Corduroy sets off to find the button; in the course of his search, he has quite an adventure, riding the elevator and exploring the department store. Although he does not find the button, all ends well. The little girl returns to take him home, where she sews a new button onto his overalls. The back pages of this edition show an early draft of the story, some original sketches and correspondence between the author and the editor, Annis Duff. These will be of particular interest to those adults who read the story years ago, when they were children. The last two-page spread displays obituaries published upon the author's death in 1978 at the age of 69. This seems like an odd note on which to end this lovely book. Perhaps some early reviews and commentaries by his contemporaries would have been more graceful, but the story itself is as wonderful as ever and the notes give the reader a look at the creative process, adding a special touch.