More on Corduroy

Tonight, Maya again refused to read Corduroy -- even though she talks about him constantly -- but we figured out why.

Apparently, she doesn't think it is good that Corduroy goes upstairs all alone looking for his button. She thinks that Corduroy is scared, especially when he hides when the night watchman comes. She told us she wanted to tell Corduroy not to go upstairs because she knows he'll be scared. But that he goes upstairs anyway. And that makes her upset because she likes Corduroy and doesn't want him to be scared.

So then we decided together that Corduroy was a story "for daytime", not for bedtime. Hopefully she will agree to read it again. Who would have known this story would be scary to her?

I should mention that we have already had to shelve the Llama, Llama books at night as well because Maya relates a little bit too much to Baby Llama's nighttime fears of being alone without Mama Llama. Little Llama has been banished from the bedroom for this reason. So I guess I shouldn't be too surprised about her being afraid for Corduroy.