Maddie Moo Toddler Book Review: Corduroy's Christmas

Based on the character by: Don Freeman

This is Madeline's current favorite Christmas book. She loves the lift-the-flap of this one far more than any of her other lift-the-flap books, though I can't say for sure why. 

She enjoys reading this one several times in a row, and while it is a cute book, after about eight read-throughs, it starts to get a bit annoying. Mainly because she will insist on you reading it no matter what you are doing. Watching a movie? Cooking dinner? No. You are reading this book.

She does do well reading this one back to us, though, in so much as she can say "where's the... lights?!" and then flip the correct flap for the lights. So she gets the idea behind it.




This is a character from a story I loved when I was younger, so I'm happy that she enjoys this one. Do I wish she would mix it up a bit more? Yes. But it's definitely a cute and easy read. The advantage to it when you have to read it a million times in a row is that there are variations you can easily make to mix up the story a bit for each page. We sometimes eat the cookies Corduroy bakes on one of the pages, or sing along with the carolers on another!