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Summary: Isn't this the meaning of life?
Review: I had just landed in San Diego after a six-hour flight, checked into an Embassy Suites hotel, and flipped Showtime on the television for background noise while I unpacked.This video came on, and having heard George Winston's "December" CD, which accompanies the reading of the story, I stopped to watch. This is a simple story, well told, and I found it to be a powerful touchstone. By the time it was over, my face was streaked with tears - not a usual occurrence - and I felt as if God had just finished explaining humanity to me in person. Meryl Streep does an outstanding job with the narration, the music is perfectly fitted, and the pictures, although still watercolors allow plenty of time for reflection of the story, increasing and not detracting from the power of the story. Get this and share it with your family - you'll be glad you did. Get the book and share it, too!
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Summary: simply the best
Review: I have always been amazed by the capacity of some children's book authors; their ability to instill the concept of unconditional love and selfless giving through simple words in simple stories is something I'll always admire. Aside from Silverstein's 'The Giving Tree,' Bianco's 'The Velveteen Rabbit' is the only other book which affords the same sense of love and loss in so few words and leaves me to sit in silence everytime I finish reading it. It is truly one of the most beautifully written stories to date.
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Summary: It's wonderful every time I read it!
Review: I make sure I use this book with each class I teach--3rd and4th graders. They always get it--that love makes us real, too. Theymake the connection between the Skin Horse becoming shabby and people getting old. I always bring in my stuffed velveteen rabbit I bought years ago and it starts making the rounds and popping up on different children's laps. It is a pleasure to see them become attached to the rabbit instead of "mechanical toys that were very superior, and looked down upon everyone else." They also relate to the lessons the Velveteen Rabbit learns from the Skin Horse about how becoming real is a painful process sometimes and can take a long time.
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Summary: Beautifully Illustrated
Review: I opened this book to a page of wonderment. Receiving goose bumps from my head to my toes, being transfixed by the pure beauty of the picture. The illistration dipicts a fairy filled with compassion gazing at the veleteen rabbit. He has a tear glistening from his eye. My eyes filled with tears at the ternderness which touched me.She offers such hope and love at his most lost moment.
The story is a classic and is a very moving tale, but it is the emotions of the pictures which captured my heart
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Summary: A true to life classic for all ages!
Review: I read this book when I was a little girl and it touched my heart. I bought it for my kids and read it again...and again. I realized that even as an adult, the memories of being a child and dreaming of your stuffed animals being real never fade. This book makes you remember what it was like to be a kid and even now makes me shed a tear.
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Summary: The best story to read to children
Review: I remember having this story read to me as a child. I couldn't believe what the poor rabbit went through and was excited to hear the story time after time. Now that I am a mother (my son is now 6) I made sure to buy him the book for his last birthday. He was excited to listen to the story and decided he wanted a velveteen rabbit just like the story. This is definitely a story that has children fixed to every word and picture.
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Summary: A TRUE CLASSIC FILLED WITH A VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE
Review: I seldom write reviews on children's books, although I love them with a passion. My children are now mothers and my grandchildren are past young childhood. However, I believe that somewhere deep inside each of us remains a small child that still loves fairy tales, cotton candy, and walking barefoot in the grass. This book was one of my children's favourites, along with "Charlotte's Web;" both were also my own personal favourites. When my children were six years old reading this book became a nighly adventure until I knew the words by heart. For the reviewer who rated the book with a one star due to a spelling error, my heart goes out to you; you have sadly missed something very important - the message. The book is not about spelling, editing or lack thereof; it is about encouragement and love. The book tells the story of a toy, sawdust-filled rabbit who wishes with all his heart to become real. The message contained in this book is poignant, heart-warming and touching, and one that you will never foreget as long as you live. It is a story of beauty, wonder and love. Any child who misses out on "The Velveteen Rabbit" is missing out on one of life's greatest lessons. I cannot say enough good things about this wonderful, wonderful book and highly recommend it to children...and the grown-up child in all of us.
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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 wonderful book--bad edition
Review: I was re-reading this book before wrapping it as a gift and was appalled to find a great big spellchecker oversight in this particular edition--the real rabbits had "seems" instead of seams. With this small amount of text, I wish the publisher had relied on a human proofreader. Sloppy production which reflects a lack of craftsmanship and concern. On the good side, the dark red hardbound cover is nice.
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Summary: Hope my stuffed animals become real!
Review: I'm 32 and have introduced this book to my husband, 38, who had never read it as a kid. We just lost our old stuffed animals as a result of a fire in our house: -Chigger, a stuffed tiger my husband gave me for Valentine's day the first year we were married
-Pierre, a handmade stuffed cat discolored from tearstains, with fraying ears and a rather rubbed-off felt face that I got at my grandmother's church crafts fair when I was about 7
-Ted E. Bear, my mother's bear from when she was pregnant with me
-Floppy, a little floppy dog I got my husband at Walgreens while I was out buying medicine for him late one night this fall.
-Brown Beauty, who looks like I always imagined the Skin Horse...not physically beautiful at all but very gentle. Would you believe the home restoration company washed the animals and then...accidently threw them in the dumpster. Ouch. So I told my husband about this book, and now we can imagine that somewhere, there's a real tiger, a real cat, a real dog and a real brown bear who can finally run and jump like the others. All of them were loved.
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