Absolutely beautiful story about a velveteen toy rabbit's journey to becoming real. The story was incredibly touching.

This is a classic story about a boy and his companion. The toy rabbit becomes his favorite after he can't find the stuffed animal he usually sleeps with. After the boy received him for Christmas, he was forgotten, and even shunned by his toy peers. Later in the book, the boy gets deathly ill, and the rabbit comforts him. When the boy gets better, all this belongings are to be burned, including the Velveteen Rabbit. A fairy appears and spares the rabbit. The boys love has made him real. The most touching part of the book is when t he boy sees the rabbit after he is real and has a glint of recognition. ( )

The Velveteen Rabbit

The Velveteen Rabbit is the classic story of a boy who receives a stuffed rabbit for Christmas. The toy is ostracized by other "more expensive" toys which consider themselves to "be real". When the Rabbit learns that he can only become "real" instead of "just a toy" by being truly loved by his owner. later the maid give the rabbit to the boy when a beloved toy goes missing and he is adopted with a fondness. He begins to wear out and get shabby, he even meets real bunnies and learns of his differences between himself and them. Sadly the boy Contracts Scarlett Fever and is sent away to be closer to a Dr. and upon the order of the Dr. All of the boys beloved toys and possessions are ordered burned due to fear of the contagions they may contain. While to boy is excitedly getting ready for his adventure to the seaside the Rabbit who was forgotten cries a REAL tear, his tear seems to summon the Nursery Magic Fairy. She tells the Rabbit that he was only real to the boy and brings him to the woods, where he realizes that he is a real rabbit at last and runs to join the other rabbits in the wild. The next season the boy sees the Rabbit and thinks he looks like his old Velveteen Rabbit, but he never knows for sure. But rabbit knows, and he knows the boy really loved him.

This book is an excellent example of modern fantasy. The Rabbit is fantastic in that is comes to life, the presence of the Nursery Magic Fairy adds such whimsy and lightens up the mood in a story that contains an illness that killed so many people at one time. This book has been a classic for many years and is a good one for any teacher to have on her shelves all the way through the elementary years. What a great way to start talking about germs and illnesses (like swine flu) with children and separating fact from fiction.

'The Velvetten Rabbit' by Margery Williams is a classic tale of a toy rabbit that wants to be loved by a boy. The little boy in the story wakes up on Christmas Eve to a velveteen rabbit in his stocking. The little boy loves another toy, but when it is time for bed he cannot find his other toy and sleeps with the new rabbit. The velvetten rabbit soon becomes his favorite complanion and he never lets it out of his sight. He truly loves the rabbit. When the boy gets deathly ill with fever, his things must be disinfected per the doctor's instructions. When the rabbit goes to be burned he turns to a real rabbit. This classic story can be read to all students and teach the important lessons of love and friendship.

On Christmas morning a boy received a Velveteen Rabbit in his stocking. At first the Veleveteen Rabbit stayed in the toy cupboard but one night the boy couldn't find his regular stuffed animal sleeping buddy and slept witht the Velveteen Rabbit. From then on the Velveteen Rabbit was the boy's #1 stuffed animal companion. One day the boy was really sick with scarlet fever and the doctor decided when they boy was all better they needed to disinfect his room. The boy clinged to the Velveteen Rabbit when he was sick and therefore the Velveteen Rabbit had to be burned to get rid of the scarlet fever germs. But a magic fairy helps out the Velveteen Rabbit by giving the toy something he always wanted.