Margery Williams's the Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real

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Williams's story of how a boy's love transforms a velveteen rabbit into a real one has resonated in the hearts of children for decades. Rich, lovely depictions of the boy and his rabbit, and a text that is shorter, simpler, but still faithful to the original make this the perfect picture book for reading aloud or reading along. Full color.

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Publisher’s Weekly (11/04/2002)
Lou Fancher sensitively adapts Margery Williams's The Velveteen Rabbit, illus. by Steve Johnson and Fancher, while maintaining the magic of the original. The inviting oil paintings ingeniously portray the boy's toy rabbit with button eyes, shaped like those of the real rabbits living in the nearby woods; as the stuffed rabbit is transformed by love, the artists seem to inject animation into its eyes, depicting its metamorphosis into a living, breathing being.

School Library Journal (12/01/2002)
PreS-Gr 2-Fancher's adaptation of Margery Williams's classic story sings with the magic of the original, while offering a shorter, more accessible version for modern children. The oil paintings have a luminous quality, the rich colors playing with dark and light to produce a timeless feel, perfectly complementing the text. The details of the boy's room, his toys, his Nana-all exist in an enchanted place somewhere between the past and the present. At last librarians have something to give parents who want to share the story of the toy that became real with their children, but are dismayed to find the original tale longer than they had remembered. An ideal adaptation of an old favorite.-Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Maryland School for the Deaf, Columbia

ISBN: 0689841345 | EAN: 9780689841347
Publisher: Atheneum Books  | Publication Date: October, 2002

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