The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real
Author:
Margery Williams
Content:
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Illustrator:
William Nicholson
Publication:
1922 by Heinemann
Genre:
Fairy Tales, Fiction, Folk Tales, Picture Books
Pages:
48
Current state:
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Book Guide
Toys, like all of us, dream. They long to be held, played with for hours, loved . . . But most of all, they dream of becoming REAL.
"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day. "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 your for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
From the dust jacket of the 1994 Creative Editions reprint
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William Nicholson
1872 - 1949British
English portrait painter and artist who has made some of the most perfect of recent picture books for children. His first woodcuts were for an Alpha... See more
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The Velveteen Rabbit 
Reprinted in 2019 by Living Book Press
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Podcast
Episode 70: Why Read Fairy Tales?
Released in 2020 by The Literary Life
Available formats: Streaming Audio
Length: 1 hr. 29 min.
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"Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins tackle the topic of fairy stories, discussing the what, why and how of reading them. Angelina shares the distinctive characteristics of fairy stories in contrast to other types of stories, such as myths. They deal with the question of whether fairy tales are 'escapist', the influence of the Grimm brothers scholarly work on interpreting fairy stories, and allowing the story to unveil its deeper truths without forcing meaning onto it.
Angelina gives an illustration of how to see the gospel messages in fairy tales by talking us through the story of Sleeping Beauty. She refutes the ideas that fairy tales are about human romance or are misogynistic. She also highlights some of the Enlightenment and Puritan responses to fairy tales that still linger with us today. Cindy and Angelina also discuss some common concerns such as the magical, weird, or scary aspects of fairy tales. Angelina also makes a distinction between folk tales, literary fairy tales, and cautionary tales."
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