Don freeman biography corduroy bear
Don freeman biography corduroy bear pattern
Don freeman.
Over the years, many people have asked me this question, I wish I knew the answer! My father came up with the idea of Corduroy the bear after I had already left home. He had earlier worked on a book about a boy named Corduroy who painted on the walls of his apartment, subtitled "The Inferior Decorator" that I am still hoping to publish one day!
What I do know was that in February 1967, Don was in New York, working on illustrations and several children's books, typically everything at the same time: "Something in the Wind," "The Most Wonderful Windows," and a story about a bear in a department store at night.
Don freeman biography corduroy bear
The first two were never published, the third became Corduroy.
In a letter from March 1967 Don (in New York) wrote to my mother, Lydia, (in California) that he was working on a children’s book idea, "... I think you'll also love it.
Frankly, I think it has more depth and feeling and simplicity than anything I've yet done. It takes place in a department store and also in the ho