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Velveteen Rabbit
Velveteen Rabbit
Velveteen Rabbit
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Velveteen Rabbit

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Children's classic, with the seven original color illustrations. According to Wikipedia: "The Velveteen Rabbit (or How Toys Become Real) is a children's novel written by Margery Williams and illustrated by William Nicholson. It chronicles the story of a stuffed rabbit and his quest to become real through the love of his owner. The book was first published in 1922 and has been republished many times since."

LanguageEnglish
PublisherSeltzer Books
Release dateMar 1, 2018
ISBN9781455430703
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Margery Williams

Margery Williams Bianco was an English-American author, primarily of popular children's books. A professional writer since the age of nineteen, she achieved lasting fame at forty-one with the 1922 publication of the classic that is her best-known work, The Velveteen Rabbit.

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    This is a good example of fantasy because toys are talking and interacting with each other, but it is relates to children on their level about special toys, playing, being sick, etc. The rabbit is sad when the boy moves on to a new rabbit, which is a human emotion in a nonliving thing. The main character, the rabbit, changes from a toy at the beginning to a real rabbit at the end and thus becomes round.

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Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams

THE VELVETEEN RABBIT OR HOW TOYS BECOME REAL BY MARGERY WILLIAMS

Illustrations by William Nicholson

Published by Seltzer Books

established in 1974, now offering over 14,000  books

feedback welcome: seltzer@seltzerbooks.com

Books for young children available from Seltzer Books:

Peter Rabbit and 19 Other Tales by Beatrix Potter

A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

15 Classic Picture Books by Randolph Caldecott

The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real by Margery Williams

'Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Moore

11 Children's Books by Thornton Burgess

Water Babies by Charles Kingsley

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DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC., Garden City, New York

To Francesco Bianco from The Velveteen Rabbit

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 whiskers, and his ears were lined with pink sateen. On Christmas morning, when he sat wedged in the top of the Boy's stocking, with a sprig of holly between his paws, the effect was charming.

There were other things in the stocking, nuts and oranges and a toy engine,

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