The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real

Lou Fancher and her partner, Steve Johnson, have worked as a creative team for more than twenty-six years, illustrating more than forty-five children's books, including My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss, Maya Angelou's Amazing Peace, and Margery Williams's The Velveteen Rabbit, adapted by Lou Fancher. They live with their son in the San Francisco Bay area.

Steve Johnson and his partner, Lou Fancher, have worked as a creative team for more than twenty-six years, illustrating more than forty-five children's books, including My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss, Maya Angelou's Amazing Peace, and Margery Williams's The Velveteen Rabbit, adapted by Lou Fancher. They live with their son in the San Francisco Bay area.

"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room.  "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse.  "It's a thing that happens to you.  When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.

"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful.  "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse.  "You become.  It takes a long time.  That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.  Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.  But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

Celebrate the Easter season with The Velveteen Rabbit, one of the most beloved of bunnies, as he celebrates his 75th  anniversary! This special edition, complete with the original story and artwork as they appeared in 1922, remains a timeless classic in children's literature with over 1.5 million copies in print. Ever since its first publication, this wondrous tale of the velveteen rabbit has delighted readers of all ages with its story of wisdom and love. Few other children's books so beautifully capture the spiritual meaning of Easter as does this simple tale of transformation and redemption through a child's unwavering love.

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Like the wise Skin Horse in the nursery, Margery Williams understood how toys--and people--become real through the wisdom and experience of love. This reissue of a favorite classic, with the original story and illustrations as they first appeared in 1922, will work magic for all who read it.