Margery Williams

The Velveteen Rabbit: The Classic Children's Book -- Margery Williams, Hardcover

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This original, timeless classic has been treasured for generations--this edition has the original story and illustrations from 1922.

Once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.

This wondrous tale of the velveteen rabbit has delighted readers of all ages with its story of transformation and redemption through a child's unwavering love.

At first a brand-new toy, now a threadbare and discarded nursery relic, the velveteen rabbit is saved from peril by a magic fairy who whisks him away to the idyllic world of Rabbitland. There, he becomes Real, a cherished childhood companion who will be loved for eternity.

Author: Margery Williams
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Published: 01/06/1958
Pages: 48
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.52w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9780385077255
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 695 / Velveteen Rabbit


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/15/1997 pg. 1246
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1991 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author
MARGERY WILLIAMS was born in London in 1881 and first came to the United States at the age of nine. For the rest of her life, she lived alternately in England and America. Her first novel was published when she was twenty-one, but she turned to writing for children in 1922 with the publication by Doubleday of The Velveteen Rabbit, the best-known of her thirty books for young people. Toward the end of her life, she lived in Greenwich Village in New York City. She died there in 1944.

WILLIAM NICHOLSON was born in Newark-on-Trent, England, in 1872. He illustrated several books during his lifetime, including the children's classic The Velveteen Rabbit, and was also a renowned portrait painter. Many of his portraits and still lifes hang today in museums and galleries throughout England. He was knighted in 1936, and died in 1949.

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