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Summary: The Veleveteen Rabbit
Review: This book was one of my favorites growing up and as I got older I understood that being real is being loved. I read this to my adopted daughter to help her understand that even though I didn't give birth to her, she is our "REAL" daughter beacuse we lover her. I also gifted this to a friend of mine who also has an adopted child, to help her child understand it as well.May every child and parent have the wonderful experience of sharing this story together and all the smiles and joy reading it brings.
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Summary: Wonderful story that appreciates with time
Review: The gentle wording of the story has almost a lilt to it and is lovely for reading aloud at bedtime. Children will enjoy it for the toys that talk, but there are many themes that can be introduced later, such as what constitutes love and that it is possible to look beyond someone's appearance and love them for who they are. I have found the latter theme particularly striking when I read this story to a group of children with disabilities and their peers. This is a wonderful story from all angles, from lullaby and entertainment to gentle fable.
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Summary: Velveteen Rabbit story good for parents and children
Review: It's a sweet story of a 'simple' stuffed rabbit amidst the more 'complex' modern toys in a boy's "toy collection". The rabbit starts to believe that in order to get the love of the boy, he needs to appear 'real', or be able to zoom about like the motorized toys...
(And I'm not going to tell you the end hahahahaha!!!)
It was great having that read to me, while I was hugging my stuffed animals in bed.
But -- in a way, at first glance it looks like a simple story, but it is actually a surprisingly complex story. Leave it on your child's bookshelf as he/she grows up and he/she will reread it again and again as he/she questions issues such as "who am I?", "what does it mean to be 'real'"?, "what is my role in this world?", and even "what is death"?
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Summary: The Velveteen Rabbit
Review: The Valveteen rabbit was a fake rabbit stuffed with sawdust and made out of valveteen. He was looked down on by all the modern mechanical toys. Him and all the toys live in a nursery. The rabbit jsut wanted to be real, and loved. They only thing nice to him is the skin horse. The skin horse tells him stories and what it is like to be real. That is all the rabbit wants to be. One night a boy could not find the shina dog that he slept with him. So he used the rabbit. The rabbit did not always like it thou. It was uncomforable. The rabbit was so happy the boy loved him. This was a great story witha great ending. This is a must read book and one of my favorites. You will fall in love with this story the second you are done reading it. I highly recommend it for everyone.
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Summary: Still a favorite, and a classic.
Review: This book has always been a favorite of mine. Whenever a friend has a new baby, I buy this book for them as I hope to pass on some of it's sunshine. Beautiful, timeless.
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Summary: A Timeless Masterpiece. You MUST Own This Book.
Review: The Velveteen Rabbit will always be one of the most treasured children's books of all time. I've read the book many times at various stages of my childhood, and now that I'm 22-years-old, I find that this timeless story isn't just for children. This, of course, is the story of a stuffed toy rabbit who seems to have a life of his own. "The Boy" finds the rabbit in his stocking at Christmas. After playing with him for a short time, the rabbit is put away on a shelf where he is to stay for an extended period of time. While on that shelf, he befriends a fellow stuffed toy animal called the Skin Horse. The horse tells the rabbit all about what it means to become "real", and the rabbit is quickly enamored by this aspiration. One day, the rabbit is taken off the shelf and given to the boy who cuddles with him every night and takes him wherever he goes during the day. The rabbit feels truly loved, and is thrilled when the boy tells him that he's real. There's a touching part of the story where the rabbit toy is confronted by two real rabbits who tease him about being just a toy, and he vehemently maintains that he, too, is real because "the boy said so." I'm not going to give away the ending, but I have to admit that I felt the same lump in my throat while reading this book now as I did when I first read it many years ago. I know of college students who've had to read this book for class. There's a great deal to be learned here about beauty and love. While the story remains the same, the message changes as one grows older. This book is a definite necessity for anyone's personal library.
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Summary: breathtaking illustration
Review: ... The original illustrations are wonderful, of course, but when I read this copy of the book to my 4 year old daughter, she gasped with wonder when we turned the page to reveal the drawing of the fairy. For a young child, I believe these glowing illustrations enhance the empathy the child feels for the rabbit in his journey towards becoming real.
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Summary: A Wonderous Fable for Young and Young-at-Heart...
Review: The Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh...in his 100 Acre Wood Eden...are celebrations of friendship and loyalty. Maurice Sendak's WHERE the WILD THINGS Are, startlingly glimpses into fun; adventure and beckoning unknown dangers inhabiting the seemingly guileless imagination of children. THE VELVETEEN RABBIT might be thought to complement these major modern works of CHILDREN MYTHOLOGY. "How Toys become Real..." is subtitle and theme of this superbly crafted fable about LOVE: its promise; pain and overwhemling power to miraculously transform. Like all great fairy-tales, cuentoes and parables, the story is Once-upon-a-Time simple. It can be read to any child over three, and read by any child eight or older(3.5 g/e). It is told from point of view of a "really splendid, fat and bunchy Velveteen Rabbit...with coat spotted brown and white...real thread whiskers...and ears lined with pink sateen." The toy rabbit "quests" the love of his playmate master(BOY)that can...according to Mentor and friend THE SKIN HORSE...grant REALITY.
"When a child loves you for a long, long time...not just to play with...but REALLY loves you, then you become REAL." Adorning this story is the wonderous art of illustrator Donna Green. In this 1995/98 edition, the "picture book" is illuminated with beautiful oil, acrylic, and lush pastel paintings that glow, and shimmer Life-like and LOVE-like. It is beautiful art work intrinsically conveying Margery Williams' mythical message to the young and young-at heart. (10 Stars)
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Summary: Not Just A Children's Book
Review: I was introduced to this story when I was 17 years old, and to The Little Prince. I was learning the deep secrets of life: about what it meant to "Become REAL" and "Matters of great consequence." Would that I had learned this lesson as a child! I quoted this book's renown and wise Skin Horse as validictorian of my high school. I brought these stories to my children when they were young and they took the tenents to heart. They have grown to be very sensitive and loving people. I think sharing The Velvateen Rabbit with someone is a precious way to say, "You are very REAL to me,"
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Summary: A Gorgeous Velveteen Rabbit!
Review: This story is one of those priceless stories from my childhood. I've always loved it, and when I saw this version of it, I had to have it. Donna Green does absolutely stunning illustrations and the story really comes to life. I highly recommend this classic!
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