# Corduroy

**Author:** Don Freeman
**Lexile:** 600L
**Grade range:** Grades K–3
**Age range:** 3–7
**First published:** 1968
**Page count:** 32
**Genre:** Picture Book
**ISBN-13:** `9780140501735`
**ISBN-10:** `0140501738`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/corduroy
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A teddy bear named Corduroy, missing a button, waits in a department store for someone to love him — and one night sets off to find it before a little girl finally takes him home. Don Freeman's gentle classic about belonging is a beloved grades K-3 read-aloud.

## Themes

- friendship
- belonging
- kindness
- imagination

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: The First Academy — Kindergarten Read-Aloud & Early Readers Suggested Summer Reading](https://thefirstacademy.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/K-Prep-and-K-Read-Aloud-Reading.pdf)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: CES Academy — Grade-by-Grade Summer Reading List](https://www.ces-schools.net/summer-reading-a-grade-by-grade-recommended-reading-list-for-kids/)

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