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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

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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
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To Francesco Bianco
from
The Velveteen Rabbit
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List of Illustrations

Christmas Morning
The Skin Horse Tells His Story
Spring Time
Summer Days
Anxious Times
The Fairy Flower
At Last! At Last!
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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,
and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great
rustling of tissue paper and u