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Summary: The Velveteen Rabbit
Review: Remarkably well done video with outstanding illustrations, music, and narration. A total pleasure for all ages. My wife and I both cried during the viewing out of pure joy!
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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: Classic Tale of Toys With a Heart
Review: The classic childrens story of a new toy - The Velveteen Rabbit, and a little boys love for it. Also it was the story of toys and how they become real; when the boy truly loves them. Without giving away too much of the story, I do sense a sadness to the story whenever I read it. Perhaps its in the writing. Yet, nonetheless, there is a classic story here thats been told and retold many times, and this is one of the times that its told well and honestly. Highly reccomened to children and adults.
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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: 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: The Velveteen Rabbit
Review: The Velveteen Rabbit is a great book for children. It is probally a little difficult for the younger kids to read, but if they don't read someone needs to read it to them. I believe it is one of the best books I have read.
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Summary: A Classic & beloved story about love. The best version ever
Review: The Velveteen Rabbit is such a wonderful book! But Donna Green makes this version absolutely stunning! The pictures are the best I have ever seen! I'd say this is the best version I have seen. You will not be disappointed to have this in your child's collection of books!!!!
There is also a photo book that has a lot of Donna Green's illustrations from this book that is absolutely stunning when you add our own personal photos!
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Summary: My all-time favorite children's book!
Review: The Velveteen Rabbit was (and still is) my favorite children's book. The classic tale of how the little boy's love made the rabbit real is a classic. I had a hard time finding this book, but I finally have it. I am hoping to read it to my future kids and hopefully my kids will read it to their kids. This is a book that anyone from any generation could enjoy. I will always love the Velveteen Rabbit!
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Summary: Simply an amazing book.
Review: The Velveteen Rabbit was my first lesson in love. A boy's unconditional love of his velveteen "bunny" shows us the magical and transformative power of love. Margery Williams teaches us compassion, and shows us beauty in places we might not have thought to look. As a child, I believed that if I loved all the fur off my own bunny, he, too would become real. I haven't seen him yet, but I'm still looking.
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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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