Corduroy Goes to the Library

by B.G. Hennessy

Corduroy is excited-today he is taking a trip to the library. First he returns his books, then he heads to the children's section for story hour. The librarian reads stories about farms, and Corduroy and his friends make animals masks. Before he leaves, Corduroy picks out some books to take home. He can't wait to come back to the library next week!
Children will love lifting over thirty flaps to see all the fun things there are to do at the library-curl up in a cozy chair and read, look at magazines, play on the computer, and more.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Fiction, Animals

20 pages, Hardcover

First published January 13, 2005

About the author

A LITTLE ABOUT ME

As a child I loved to draw-but I also loved books, especially picture books. I still remember certain illustrations, covers and bindings from books that were read to me as a young girl.
I’ve lived in many places: I grew up in Wantagh on Long Island, N.Y., graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts and attended St. Lawrence University in upstate New York.

At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, I majored in fine art and learned how to design, print and bind handmade books. I also took courses in Children’s Literature. The combination of form and content in the picture book format fascinated me and after graduation I headed for NYC where I worked for 17 years in children’s book publishing as a designer and art director. But I didn’t begin to write until I had children of my own.

My books have been published in many countries and in many different languages. You can find my books in the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Africa and Germany. Some of my books have been translated into German, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Tswana, Sesotho, and Zulu!

I now live with my family in Arizona. You can read more about me at my website: www.bghennessy.com

Reviews

[Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed the return of a favorite character and daughter enjoyed the flaps

[Cara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not as good as the original Corduroy books, but my son enjoyed it.

[Kathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Like a previous reviewer, I read this to my kindergarten students in the beginning of the year as we learn about good library behavior and book care. I have small groups of 8-10 kindergarteners at a time, so I let them take turns lifting the flaps which adds an extra level of engagement that they enjoy. We discuss the library and book care as we read. I have never had the confusion about the costumes that some reviewers mentioned. There is no answer key or right answer anyway. I've had students guess that Corduroy was going to be either a pirate, Puss-in-Boots or one of the Three Musketeers based on the illustration on that page. And on the following page they usually guess that he's either Peter Pan or Robin Hood. Some kids will be stumped, but I don't think it's such a big deal and they should be able to guess at least a few of the other costumes. Overall, it's nothing earth-shattering, but as fun book to introduce the library to younger students it works well.

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This started out as a super-cute Lift the Flap book about everyone's favorite bear making a trip to the library. Unfortunately, I had not pre-read it before recording it for my grandchildren. At the risk of spoiling the drama, Corduroy and his friends are asked to dress up as their favorite characters from a book. Corduroy works hard on his costume over two pages, but the book does not ever tell what his costume is, and it was not clear to me. I would have liked to be able to point out to my grands how the costume matched the character, or at least who the character was.... but alas, nothing of the sort. Here's the youtube video I made for my grandchildren, a boy and girl twin who live in Ohio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxKyE....

[Paula · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this to Kindergartners. They enjoyed it. I love the flaps and it gave us the opportunity to talk about books and how to care for them. For example, would you leave a book under the rug? (No) Where should you keep books? (Backpack) How could Corduroy have kept his book safe in the rain? (In backpack or plastic bag) As to the reviewer who thought kids wouldn't know the pirate costume, all of my (150 Kindergarten students) have seen Pirates of Caribean. The Robin Hood costume he showed up in the end was not known by virtually all of the students.

[Linda · Rating 2 out of 5]

I prefer the old Corduroy illustrations. the flaps are fun, and Bug seemed to enjoy it, but it lost her at the end when it said "guess who Corduroy is dressing up as?" and it was a 3 musketeers style costume. little kids aren't going to get that. and then when they went to the library, he had a completely different costume on. then it just kind of ended with them walking into the library, and I felt there could've been one more page to round it all out. I know it's a kid's book, but still.

[Turrean · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good choice for PK because of the storyline and the lift-the-flap elements. In one pre-K class, the kids could not guess the costume Corduroy was wearing, but easily identified the costumes of a few of the other characters: Red raiding Hood, the Gingerbread Boy. Today my second pre-K class surprised me by correctly identifying Corduroy's costume as Peter Pan. Ahh, Disney.

[Library Lady Terri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good continuation of the classic Corduroy character. Enjoy going searching for his missing library books at the beginning of the story. Always think I should do the paper plate craft activity that they do in the book.

[Angie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Noah loves him some lift-the-flap books. Plus its cool cause its about where mommy works.

[Mandy J. Hoffman · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lift-the-flap book about going to the library. Cute!

[Lori · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wonderful soft bright illustrations with this fun lift-the-flap book and the same cute Corduroy sharing the joy of libraries.

[Sharlet Mullen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a wonderful book with the flip tabs to find the items in the story line. Great for interaction.

[Charlie Beck · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lift a flap. Corduroy visits the library in this non-original book.

[Kristy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am such a sucker for turning over the little flaps in the book...I imagine the kids will be too! Great way to learn about the library!

[Mckinley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun because of the interactive part.

[Rosemary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rather a retro library system for a book published in 2005. Nice lift-the-flaps.

[Justine Ridder · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dee's Collection.

[Holly Letson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have always enjoyed the Corduroy series. And, I loved the Lift-the-Flap approach they took here.

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love Corduroy! Must read for kids.

[Jenny · Rating 4 out of 5]

2 year old loved it! he loves flaps and animals so this was great.