title: The Velveteen Rabbit: or How Toys Become Real
author:  Margery Williams 
description: The author, MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO (1881-1944), was born in London, and for much of her life she alternated living in England and in America. She raised two children with her husband, Francesco Bianco. Although today she is best known for The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real, she was an accomplished author with more than two dozen books to her name.
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  The Velveteen Rabbit v. 17.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 25 December 2017 
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  Margery Williams 
  The Velveteen Rabbit 
   
   
  
  DOWN TO EARTH SERIES 
  THE VELVETEEN RABBIT 
  The Velveteen Rabbit v. 17.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 25 December 2017 
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  How love makes toys become real 
  First published in the United States by George H. Doran Co, 1922, and illustrated by Sir William 
  Newzam Prior Nicholson. The two images in this edition have been created by Fred Warter, 
  http://theartofwarter.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/blog-post_10.html 
  HERE WAS ONCE A VELVETEEN RABBIT, and in the beginning he was really 
  splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; his coat was spotted 
  brown and white, he had real thread whiskers, and his ears were lined with 
  pink sateen. On Christmas morning, when he sat wedged in the top of the Boy’s 
  stocking, with a sprig of holly between his paws, the effect was charming. 
  There were other things in the stocking, nuts and orang