The Velveteen Rabbit(Illustrated) E-Book

Margery Williams

• Herausgeber: Jillian Wayne
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

• Illustrated Edition: 20 charming, full-page illustrations
• Includes Bonus Materials: concise summary, character list, and author biography

Step into a nursery where love works quiet miracles. The Velveteen Rabbit—Margery Williams’s timeless classic—follows a humble stuffed bunny who longs to become “Real.” At first overlooked in favor of flashier toys, the Velveteen Rabbit finds a wise friend in the Skin Horse, a child’s steadfast affection, and a magic that only true love can spark. Gentle, hopeful, and deeply human, this story speaks to every age about the power of being chosen, worn-in, and loved into who you are.
This beautifully designed illustrated edition features 20 elegant, full-page artworks that bring the Rabbit’s journey to life—from cozy bedtime moments to woodland wonder. To enrich your reading experience, we’ve also included a spoiler-light summary, a clear character list for quick reference, and a brief author biography of Margery Williams to set the story in its historical context.
Whether you’re building a child’s first library or revisiting a beloved favorite, this edition is crafted for joyful read-alouds, gift-giving, and treasured re-reads for years to come.
 

Leseprobe

The Velveteen Rabbit                                                                        By                                                                                               Margery Williams

ABOUT WILLIAMS

Margery Williams Bianco (July 22, 1881 – September 4, 1944) was an English-American writer whose quiet, humane stories helped define modern children’s literature. Born in London, she emigrated to the United States as a girl and began publishing fiction in her teens; after early adult novels, she turned decisively to writing for young readers. Her best-known work, The Velveteen Rabbit (1922), distilled her abiding preoccupation with love, loss, and becoming “real,” and it has remained a classic for a century.

In 1904 she married Francesco Bianco, an Italian scholar and bookseller. The couple’s peripatetic life—moving among Britain, Italy, France, and the U.S.—and their children, artist Pamela Bianco and son “Cecco,” threaded into Williams’s fiction: toys, pets, and children confront the world with candor and courage, often discovering that affection confers identity.

The success of The Velveteen Rabbit opened a remarkably productive 1920s and 1930s. She collaborated with leading illustrators and publishers and became part of the golden age of illustrated books. A high point is Poor Cecco (1925), a picaresque tale of a wooden dog and his nursery comrades, illustrated by Arthur Rackham and issued on both sides of the Atlantic—an adventurous, witty counterpart to the tender Velveteen fable.

Williams’s Depression-era fiction broadened her canvas beyond the nursery. Winterbound (1936), about four siblings managing a New England farmhouse through hardship, earned a 1937 Newbery Honor and showcased her gift for portraying resilience without sentimentality.

Across more than two decades of work, Bianco wrote under variations of her name—Margery Williams, Margery Bianco, Margery Williams Bianco—yet her voice stayed unmistakable: gentle, morally serious, and attentive to the inner lives of children and the beings they love. She died in New York in 1944, leaving a body of work that continues to invite readers to consider how empathy makes us real.

Selected milestones

• 1881: Born in London.

• 1922: Publishes The Velveteen Rabbit.

• 1925: Poor Cecco appears with Arthur Rackham’s illustrations.

• 1937: Winterbound receives a Newbery Honor.

• 1944: Dies in New York City.

SUMMARY

A small, velvety toy rabbit arrives as a Christmas present to a little boy and is quickly overshadowed by fancier, wind-up toys. In the quiet of the nursery, the Rabbit learns from the wise old Skin Horse that toys become Real “when a child loves you for a long, long time.” That lesson is tested as the Rabbit endures neglect, then—bit by bit—earns the boy’s affection: bedtime snuggles, garden adventures, and the kind of wear that comes from being chosen every day. When illness sweeps through the household, the Rabbit’s fate hangs in the balance—until a woodland magic answers the truest kind of love.

Tender and gently funny, The Velveteen Rabbit traces the journey from make-believe to “Real” as something love does to you: it rubs off the gloss, stretches your seams, and makes your heart big enough to hold joy and loss together. That’s why the story endures—it tells children (and the grownups reading aloud) that being loved changes you, and that change is the most beautiful magic of all.