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Title: The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, William Nicholson ISBN: 0-380-00255-8 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.82 (49 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I still love this book...I always will
Comment: These are the days of Sony Playstation 2 and Harry Potter, activites that do not really ever try to tell a great story that also gives a lesson without being preachy.
The Velveteen Rabbit is heartwrenchingly beautiful. The Rabbit who yearns to be Real and whose love for the boy was unconditional is both imaginative and sad. I cannot read this book without a lump coming to my throat and being transported to simpler days when the love of a toy was the greatest thing in the whole world.
This is a book with an ending that is mixed, that touches on the ambiguity of life and loss. But there is also hope of a new beginning. And I think children can understand that and grow from it.
I cherish this book deeply.
Rating: 5
Summary: Velveteen Rabbit story good for parents and children
Comment: It's a sweet story of a 'simple' stuffed rabbit amidst the more 'complex' modern toys in a boy's "toy collection". The rabbit starts to believe that in order to get the love of the boy, he needs to appear 'real', or be able to zoom about like the motorized toys...
(And I'm not going to tell you the end hahahahaha!!!)
It was great having that read to me, while I was hugging my stuffed animals in bed.
But -- in a way, at first glance it looks like a simple story, but it is actually a surprisingly complex story. Leave it on your child's bookshelf as he/she grows up and he/she will reread it again and again as he/she questions issues such as "who am I?", "what does it mean to be 'real'"?, "what is my role in this world?", and even "what is death"?
Rating: 1
Summary: Too sad for me
Comment: I've never liked this story and I had to hear it a lot as a child since it's a "classic." The rabbit's martyrdom made me cry every time it was read to me and actually gave me nightmares as a young child. This is one book from my childhood I will not be reading to my son.
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Title: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak ISBN: 0060254920 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 09 November, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein ISBN: 0060256656 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: June, 1964 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Corduroy by Don Freeman, Richard Peck ISBN: 0670241334 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: March, 1968 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title:Velveteen Rabbit Anniversary Edition ASIN: B00008J2J2 Publisher: Windham Hill Records Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.99 |
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Title: Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Ray Cruz, Judith Viorst ISBN: 0689711735 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 15 July, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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