Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15238 in VHS
• Released on: 2003-08-05
• Rating: Unrated
• Formats: Animated, Color, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 30 minutes

Customer Reviews

Live action versions of two library favorites!
I am a children's librarian delighted to see two favorite storytime videos available for the home market. "A Pocket for Corduroy" is an extraordinary live-action adaptation of the story by Don Freeman in which a toy bear accidentally gets left behind in a laundromat(with puppet animation so seamless that kids (and grown-ups!) are left wondering how they filmed it!) The video also contains "The Remarkable Riderless Runaway Tricycle," a very funny live-action adaptation of the book by Bruce McMillan in which a tricycle, whose young owner distractedly abandons it, ends up in a dump, escapes and careens around town before returning, at last, to its downcast owner. Both these videos are library favorites shown year after year in library storytimes.

Other wonderful videos by the same producer are:
"Corduroy and Other Bear Stories" (not to be confused with the television show "Adventures of Corduroy" -- this is a much better product) and "A Boy, A Dog, and a Frog, and other Frog Stories."

A Heartwarming Story of a Little Girl and Her Magical Teddy Bear
Corduroy is no ordinary teddy bear. Just when you least expect it (as when you are asleep), he comes to life. He is full of antics.

A little girl (Lisa) loses Corduroy at a laundry. She pleads with the owner to find him. The mischievous teddy bear ends up, by mistake, at a boy's house. At night, Corduroy comes to life and rides on a skateboard across the home. The parents lock up the dog, thinking that he is the one making all the nighttime commotion. Corduroy gets away.

Lisa continues to miss Corduroy. He takes a ride on a truck chute, and ends up locked in in a box for shipping. The suspense is obvious to all: Will Corduroy and Lisa ever see each other again?

As a teacher, I have found that this VHS keeps the attention of small children very well.

Pocket For Corduroy Review
I LOVE this video. It all starts when Lisa and her mom go to the laundromat with Corduroy. When Lisa goes out to get ice cream with her friends, a mom and a boy come in. The boy rides his trike around and crashes into Corduroy's basket which sends him flying into the boy's basket. The boy's mom doesn't notice Corduroy and accidentally throws him into the laundry. When Lisa returns, she doesn't see Corduroy where she put him. After the boy and his mom go home, the mom sees Corduroy in the clean laundry. The boy takes care of Corduroy during the night. In the morning, Lisa goes to the laundromat and finds Corduroy wheeling over to her in a laundry basket. That night, she sewed a pocket on Corduroy's overalls and puts an ID card in it so that whenever he gets lost, everyone will konw where he belongs.