Corduroy has a list for Santa, and it is a good one: a train set, ice skates, the works. Then the season does what the season does, and he figures out that the best part of Christmas was never on the list at all.

It is the friendship lesson every parent wants delivered by someone other than themselves, and Corduroy has been delivering it since 1968. Thirty two pages, eight by eight paperback, priced so it can go in a stocking, a gift bag, or a classroom December book basket without a second thought.