I've never been happier in my life!" He created many beloved characters in his lifetime, perhaps the most beloved among them a stuffed, overall-wearing bear named Corduroy.īahni Turpin is a Los Angeles–based audiobook narrator and actress with many television and film credits. I work all the time, long into the night, and it's such a pleasure. Through his writing, he was able to create his own theater: "I love the flow of turning the pages, the suspense of what's next. Soon after, he began to write and illustrate his own books, a career he settled into comfortably and happily. During his career as an artist, sketching impressions of Broadway shows for the New York Times and The Herald Tribune, he was introduced to the world of children’s literature when William Saroyan asked him to illustrate several books.
A stage version of the two books was also produced by the Children's Theatre Company in 2018.Don Freeman (1908–1978) was the author and illustrator of many popular books for children, including Corduroy, A Pocket for Corduroy, and the Caldecott Honor Book Fly High, Fly Low. The 2000 animated TV series Corduroy was based on A Pocket for Corduroy as well as its predecessor. This version includes the original story, artwork, voice-over, music and read along captions. An American Sign Language (ASL) version of A Pocket for Corduroy was released through Scholastic Corporation/ Weston Woods in 2009. Adaptations Ī Pocket for Corduroy was made into a short television movie in 1986.
Mary LeCompte of Common Sense Media praised the book, writing that it "has all the charm of the original with a gentle but lively plot and highly descriptive pictures." Kirkus Reviews was also generally positive. Corduroy is reunited with Lisa, who promptly takes him home to sew a pocket onto his overalls so that Corduroy can carry a name card with him. After a series of adventures, while Corduroy searches for material to make a pocket, he becomes trapped in a laundry basket until he is found the next morning by the laundromat's owner. Lisa accidentally loses Corduroy, her teddy bear, at a laundromat. It is a sequel to his 1968 book Corduroy. A Pocket for Corduroy is a 1978 children's book written and illustrated by Don Freeman.
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