Linda Terheyden

"A toy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but when a little girl finally buys him he finds what he has always wanted most of all." "Corduroy has been on the department store shelf for a long time. Yet as soon as Lisa sees him, she knows that he's the bear for her. Her mother, though, thinks he's a little shopworn--he's even missing a button! Still, Corduroy knows that with a bit of work he can tidy himself up and be just the bear...

A small boy imagines what it would be like to have his own rainbow to play with.

A toy bear who wants a pocket for himself searches for one in a laundromat.

Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air. Includes a retrospective on the careers of Brown and Hurd as well as details of the publication and success of Goodnight moon.

Sam is still too little to reach the light switch, the bathroom taps, and his clothes hangers, but his grandfather's birthday present makes him feel that he is finally tall enough.