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The velveteen rabbit, or, How toys become real

The threadbare Velveteen Rabbit is saved from peril when he is whisked away by a fairy to the idyllic world of Rabbitland, where he learns what it means to be loved.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bianco, Margery Williams, 1881-1944 (Author)
Other Authors:	Stead, Erin E. (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Doubleday Books for Young Readers, [2022]
Edition:	First edition ; 100 anniversary edition.
Subjects:	Rabbits > Juvenile fiction. Toys > Juvenile fiction. Soft toys > Juvenile fiction. Magic > Juvenile fiction. Boys > Juvenile fiction. Stuffed animals (Toys) > Juvenile fiction. Picture books.
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Summary:	The threadbare Velveteen Rabbit is saved from peril when he is whisked away by a fairy to the idyllic world of Rabbitland, where he learns what it means to be loved.
Item Description:	Originally published in New York by George H. Doran Company in 1922.
Physical Description:	39 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Audience:	Ages 4-8.
ISBN:	9780593382103 0593382102 9780593382127 0593382129
Author Notes:	MARGERY WILLIAMS was born in London in 1881 and first came to the United States at the age of nine. For the rest of her life, she lived alternately in England and America. Her first novel was published when she was twenty-one, but she turned to writing for children in 1922 with the publication by Doubleday of The Velveteen Rabbit, the first and best-known of her thirty books for young people. Toward the end of her life, she lived in Greenwich Village, New York. She died there in 1944. ERIN STEAD is the illustrator of the Caldecott Medal-winning A Sick Day for Amos McGee and its sequel, Amos McGee Misses the Bus , and the New York Times bestseller The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine. Her other acclaimed picture books include: Tony ; A nd Then It's Spring ; Bear Has a Story to Tell ; Lenny & Lucy ; If You Want to See a Whale ; The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles ; and Music for Mr. Moon . She lives in Michigan with her husband, author/illustrator Philip Stead. Visit Erin online at erinstead.com.