![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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