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The Original Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
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The Original Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams

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This book tells how well-loved toys become real.
bradleykimbrell | Apr 8, 2009 |  
This book taught the importance of loving and taking care of your things. Your stuffed animals and toys should be treated as though they have feelings.
kmbrown1 | Mar 22, 2009 |  
This is one of my favorite class tales of a toy rabbit who wants to be real. In this story the rabbit learns what it means to be loved by a young boy.
carrie.murphy | Mar 15, 2009 |  
Classic story of the stuffed rabbit that becomes Real.
gnbclibrary | Mar 14, 2009 |  
This is my absolute favorite Children's Story. I collect as many versions as I run across. ( )
Librarynymph | Feb 20, 2009 |  
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Dedication
To Francesco Bianco from The Velveteen Rabbit
First words
There was once a Velveteen Rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid.
Quotations
"When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0307001350, Hardcover)

A stuffed toy rabbit (with real thread whiskers) comes to life in Margery Williams's timeless tale of the transformative power of love. Given as a Christmas gift to a young boy, the Velveteen Rabbit lives in the nursery with all of the other toys, waiting for the day when the Boy (as he is called) will choose him as a playmate. In time, the shy Rabbit befriends the tattered Skin Horse, the wisest resident of the nursery, who reveals the goal of all nursery toys: to be made "real" through the love of a human. "'Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'" This sentimental classic--perfect for any child who's ever thought that maybe, just maybe, his or her toys have feelings--has been charming children since its first publication in 1922. (A great read-aloud for all ages, but children ages 8 and up can read it on their own.)

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