The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Velveteen Rabbit
Book Review: Classic, sweet and a must for children of all ages
Summary: 5 Stars
This was my mother's favorite story, so she read it to me as a child and I really never appreciated it as much as when I was older and read it to my children... maybe that's the way it's supposed to go? My son used to grab this book from his shelf a lot for me to read to him - and it was just to see mommy cry (I always cry when I read this book), he knew the book by heart and coached me when my throat was too tight to speak through the 'emotional' parts. He surprised me last year in 1st grade when he took the book into class to read to his classmates (I didn't know he took it). His teacher called me up telling me how much of a good reader he is... and that he cried when he read the book to his classmates... wow. Books seldom leave a mark, but this one sure does... sorta like a legacy. This book makes me 'real'.Book Review: Give This To Every Child (GrownUp or not) You Know
Summary: 5 Stars
My sister cried at the ending of this book, and still does when she reads it to her kids. I don't show the tears, but it has made me more real. It is a deeply tender and beautiful story. This book is the first birthday present I reach for to give to nieces, nephews, cousins. I even gave it to my own parents recently (in a Classic Books basket). The story, like its characters, has a life of its own. The connection is all about love, and these are the authors who open us to the true magic of life and within each of us.Book Review: Good book gift
Summary: 5 Stars
As a gift, gave this classic book to niece along with plush rabbit. Great keepsake present.Book Review: Hope my stuffed animals become real!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm 32 and have introduced this book to my husband, 38, who had never read it as a kid. We just lost our old stuffed animals as a result of a fire in our house:-Chigger, a stuffed tiger my husband gave me for Valentine's day the first year we were married
-Pierre, a handmade stuffed cat discolored from tearstains, with fraying ears and a rather rubbed-off felt face that I got at my grandmother's church crafts fair when I was about 7
-Ted E. Bear, my mother's bear from when she was pregnant with me
-Floppy, a little floppy dog I got my husband at Walgreens while I was out buying medicine for him late one night this fall.
-Brown Beauty, who looks like I always imagined the Skin Horse...not physically beautiful at all but very gentle.
Would you believe the home restoration company washed the animals and then...accidently threw them in the dumpster. Ouch.
So I told my husband about this book, and now we can imagine that somewhere, there's a real tiger, a real cat, a real dog and a real brown bear who can finally run and jump like the others. All of them were loved.
Book Review: I still love this book...I always will
Summary: 5 Stars
These are the days of Sony Playstation 2 and Harry Potter, activites that do not really ever try to tell a great story that also gives a lesson without being preachy. The Velveteen Rabbit is heartwrenchingly beautiful. The Rabbit who yearns to be Real and whose love for the boy was unconditional is both imaginative and sad. I cannot read this book without a lump coming to my throat and being transported to simpler days when the love of a toy was the greatest thing in the whole world.
This is a book with an ending that is mixed, that touches on the ambiguity of life and loss. But there is also hope of a new beginning. And I think children can understand that and grow from it.
I cherish this book deeply.