The Velveteen Rabbit Paperback – 23 Mar. 2017

Almost had me weeping. Beautiful story.

Bought for my great granddaughter so she didn’t feel left out at her auntie’s baby shower and she loved it.

I took off one star for the exaggerated reverence in which this book seems to be held in some quarters. It's sweet, and a tearjerker, but when it comes to preaching a sermon based on it, as I recently heard done - well, that's a step too far. I don't think the Skin Horse's insights are the key to life and spirituality and everything.A child should meet with it on the child's own terms, to take or leave- then it's easy to see how it might resonate in the memory. But adults treating it like Scripture, no. Maybe I've just been talking to the wrong people.Actually I bought this one purely because our old one had gone missing, and the bookshelf wasn't complete without it

A lovely book and storey but is very dated now (its almost 100 years old)

Great hook fur grandson

Someone recomended this book to me a couple of years ago. They had recently found out that I had been self harming for years and had been recently trying to stop. When they asked me why I felt a need to do it, I immediately answered that 'it makes me feel real - I need to feel real'. They told me about this story. After reading it for the first time, I cried. It simultaneously filled me with relief and confusion - I felt empathy towards a toy rabbit, whom I could actually relate to! The illustrations are beautiful and the story is sweet and sad. I now read it to my sixteen month old daughter who points out the rabbit with delight. It is certainly a story that can be read by a variety of people, children and adults. The message it sends out is heart warming to hear. I only wish that I had read it as a child...

Condition acceptable. However much is lost from the original and i wasnt prepared for that. Suitable for young children.

Yes I know I should have read this years ago and I mean years, but what a beautiful little book. The grandson will be getting a copy