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
  
   **OR**  
  **HOW TOYS BECOME REAL**
  
  by Margery Williams Illustrations by William Nicholson
  
   **DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC.**  
  Garden City New York **_**
  
  To Francesco Bianco from The Velveteen Rabbit **_**
  
  List of Illustrations
  
  Christmas Morning The Skin Horse Tells His Story Spring Time Summer Days
  Anxious Times The Fairy Flower At Last! At Last! **_**
  
  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 oranges and a toy engine,
  and chocolate almonds and a clockwork mouse, bu