Corduroy by Don Freeman

백화점에서 파는 낡은 아기곰 인형(Corduroy)이 주인을 만나는 책의 내용. 글이 어렵지 않으면서도 다채로워 좋았다. 그리고 모르는 단어는 그림을 통해 충분히 유추할 수 있도록 그림이 명료하게 잘 그려져 있었다. 

누군가에게 사랑을 받고 싶었던 Corduroy.

그리고 그가 원하는 사랑을 준 어린소녀.

그랬기에 Corduroy는 자신이 살게 된 곳이 궁전이 아니어도 상관없었다.

그곳은 집(home)이었고 그에게는 어린소녀라는 친구가 있었다.

There’s the very bear I’ve always wanted.

 

Late that evening, when all the shoppers had gone and the doors were shut and locked, Corduroy climbed carefully down from his shelf and began searching everywhere on the floor for his lost button.

* climb = use your legs or your legs and hands, to go up onto the top of sth

 

But, like all the other buttons on the mattress, it was tied down tight.

 

Off the mattress Corduroy toppled.

* topple = lose balance and fall down

* a tall floor lamp                                                                

 

The night watchman was going his rounds on the floor above. 순회하고 있었다.

 

He flashed his light under and over sofas and beds until he came to the biggest bed of all.

* flash 을 향하여 비추다 = shine brightly and suddenly, to make sth shine in this way

 

The watchman tucked Corduroy under his arm and carried him down the escalator and set him on the shelf in the toy department with the other animals and dolls.

* tuck 감싸다,

 

She ran all the way up four flights of stairs, into her family’s apartment, and straight to her own room.

 

There was a chair and a chest of drawers, and alongside a girl-sized bed stood a little bed just the right size for him.

* a chest of drawers 서랍장

 

I like you the way you are. But you’ll be more comfortable with your shoulder strap fastened.