1. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
2. Corduroy by Don Freeman
3. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
4. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
5. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The story I have selected from my top five list is Corduroy by Don Freeman. This story is about a bear named Corduroy, who wears a green corduroy with a missing button. This causes a little girl named Lisa’s mother to not buy the bear for Lisa. At night when all the customers, shoppers and employees have left the shop, Corduroy comes off his shelf and searches for his missing button. Corduroy ends up in the furniture department trying to find a button to replace his, he then breaks a lamp while trying to pull one off a mattress. A security guard hears the crash and then finds Corduroy, he brings him back to his shelf in the toy department. The next day Lisa comes back with enough money that she’s saved in her piggy bank. She takes Corduroy home. I chose this book, because when I was younger and to this day, I felt like Corduroy and I had something in common. Corduroy was left in the store with hopes of being bought by Lisa. This kind of, for some strange reason, reminds me of the times my mom would forget me in the sock and underwear section of Wal-mart and Kmart. In the end some nice stranger would take me to the front and find my mom for me or I would just cry and scream for her until the cops came. After a while I kind of knew she was going to find me, actually it's the other way around, I was going to find her. At the end of the story Lisa came back for Corduroy and I feel that we relate in this way.
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