The amusing story of a toy bear whose one missing button from his green corduroy overalls almost costs him the opportunity of belonging to someone. A toy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but when a little girl finally buys him he finds what he has always wanted most of all. A sequel is: A Pocket for Corduroy (1978). Bowker Authored Title code. The amusing story of a toy bear whose one missing button from his green corduroy overalls...

Nate the Great follows the clues to find his lost dog, Sludge, in a department store.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Charlie Trumpeter inherits his grandfather's fruit and vegetable barrow which he eventually parlays into riches and a world-famous department store. Along the way Charlie battles enemies in the trenches of World War I as well as in the streets of London.

On a shopping trip to the department store, Max's determination to get a dragon shirt leads him away from his distracted sister and into trouble.

Paddington Bear brings the Brown family to a Christmas spectacular at Barkridges and ends up making a spectacular mess.

"Someone knocked out Todd and Noelle's friend Pops Verner, the night watchman at the department store, and stole his treasured pocket watch. He's pretty sure the robber is one of the three men who work in the storeroom. But how can he figure out which one ..."--Cover back.

Eleven elephants ride the elevator up to each floor of a department store in turn, creating havoc as they go and attracting the attention of the store detective.

After hearing "Don't touch!" several times during a trip to the department store, Samantha receives a surprise from her mother. At various points in the text, the reader is asked to guess which word completes the rhyming verse.

Sami and his dad get separated on a shopping trip, and Sami has to ask a store clerk for help.

When merchandise starts to disappear, Nancy takes a job putting up Christmas decorations at Albemarle's department store to look for the thief.