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The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real (Classic Reprint)
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The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real (Classic Reprint) Hardcover - 2016

by Margery Williams


About this book

The Velveteen Rabbit, or How Toys Become Real, is the story of a toy rabbit who wants to become real through the love of his owner. The stuffed rabbit is overlooked by the boy whom he is given, the boy preferring to play with more mechanical and sophisticated toys than the simple stuffed rabbit. The rabbit holds onto a story told to him by the oldest and wisest toy in the nursery, the skin horse, about how toys can become real through love. Eventually, the boy becomes attached to the soft doll, but after developing scarlet fever the doctor orders the boy sent away to recover and all his toys and belonging burnt. The rabbit is so sad over his separation from the boy he begins to cry and sheds a real tear - after which the nursery fairy appears to turn him into a real rabbit.

It has been adapted many times into television, film and onto the stage. The National Education Association listed it among the top 100 books for teachers of children in 2007.

Author Margery Williams’ first children’s book, The Velveteen Rabbit was published in 1922 by George H. Doran Company in London and has remained in print continuously since, owing to its popularity as a story of the power of enduring love.

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From the publisher

Excerpt from The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real There was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; his coat was spotted brown and white, he had real thread whiske

First Edition Identification

The UK printing and the US printing occurred simultaneously and feature yellow-tan pictorial boards picturing a rabbit and seven chromolithographs by William Nicholson (later issues contained reproductions of these). One of the most coveted children’s books for collectors, copies in a dust jacket often appear for over $5,000, with pristine copies well exceeding $15,000.

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  • Title The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real (Classic Reprint)
  • Author Margery Williams
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 44
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Forgotten Books
  • Date 2016
  • ISBN 9781334998805 / 1334998809
  • Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.25 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 0.64 cm)
  • Ages 05 to 08 years
  • Grade levels K - 3
  • Reading level 1050
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.52
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