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
  
  
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  # The Velveteen Rabbit
  
  
  ### Margery Williams
  
  
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  THE
  
  
    
  Velveteen Rabbit
  
  
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  HOW TOYS BECOME REAL
  
  
  ##  by Margery Williams
  
  
    
  Illustrations by William Nicholson
  
  
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  Garden City New York
  
  
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  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 p