The Velveteen Rabbit

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Title: The Velveteen Rabbit Author: Margery Williams Release Date: March 29, 2004 [eBook #11757] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE VELVETEEN RABBIT***
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THE
Velveteen Rabbit
OR HOW TOYS BECOME REAL by Margery Williams Illustrations by William Nicholson
DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC. Garden City New York
To Francesco Bianco from The Velveteen Rabbit
List of Illustrations
Christmas Morning The Skin Horse Tells His Story Spring Time Summer Days Anxious Times The Fairy Flower At Last! At Last!
HERE 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, and chocolate almonds and a clockwork mouse, but the Rabbit was quite the best of all. For at least two hours the Boy loved him, ...