I love sharing classic stories with my children. The Velveteen Rabbit is probably one of the most beloved children’s books of all time.
When the Velveteen Rabbit first arrives in the nursery, he is snubbed by the other toys. But the Rabbit soon makes friends with the Skin Horse, who explains how toys can become “real” if they are loved enough.
The Velveteen Rabbit longs for this to happen, and one day he finds that he has become the Boy’s very favorite toy. They play together through a long, golden summer, Rabbit becoming shabbier and shabbier as he becomes real to the boy who loves him. The rabbits in the garden think otherwise — how can Rabbit be real when he can’t leap and hop?
When Boy takes ill with scarlet fever and Rabbit must be discarded, a magical fairy appears to transform him into a real, wild rabbit, though her parting words remind him that he was always real to the Boy.
A perfect gift for delivering an old favorite to a new generation, this beautifully illustrated version of Margery Williams’s time-honored tale is the first in a series of Nosy Crow classics. We love this book so much, you will find it on Mommy Ramblings’ 2017 Holiday Gift Guide.
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The Princess in Black looks good.
I also like their book Make and Play: Christmas.
Where’s Waldo? Destination: Everywhere!
Another book I like is The Christmas Fairy!
How About Martin Luther King: The Peaceful Warrior. It’s never too early to learn about great Americans. Thanks.
A Christmas For Bear would be nice to read to children.
Another book I like from Candlewick Press is On The Night Of The Shooting Star.
A Christmas for Bear
A Day at the Dinosaur Museum
I’d like The Princess and the Christmas Rescue.
I like the Twelve Days of Christmas book.
I like the Pick a Pine Tree book
Wish sounds like a great book.
The Twelve Days Of Christmas looks charming!
I like the The Wacky Winter Wonderland! book.
The Christmas Fairy
Where is waldo
I would love to have The Wacky Winter Wonderland.
I would really like The Princess in Black.
another book that looks cute is Dave’s Cave
The Nutcracker Mice looks fun!!!
i would like to get the wish book.
The Nutcracker’s mice looks cute!
The Princess and the Christmas Rescue
Welcome to Country Welcome to Country (Hardback)
author: Joy Murphy
The Wacky Winter Wonderland
Fa La La/Tra-la-la looks like an adorable book we would like!
My nephews would love the dinosaur museum book
Gulliver’s Travels: Voyage to Lilliput
“Home” by Carson Ellis!
THE BOOK Happy
What makes little owl happiest of all? SOUNDS GOOD.
I also like A Christmas for Bear book.
I like the a day at the dinosaur museum book.
I would like A World of Information.
Elf in the House looks like a really cute book!
I like How Plants and Trees Work
Hubble Bubble
So much to choose from. So excited to go down memory lane and read the books again with my 6 year old. Love Where’s waldo.
My daughter would love to have the 12 Days of Christmas book!
The Wacky Winterland
The Christmas fairy looks like a good book for the kids
The Princess in Black looks interesting!
Where’s Waldo? Destination: Everywhere! My kids love this book, too!
Dolls of War looks as if it would be a great educational story!
My twins would enjoy Raymie Nightingale by author: Kate DiCamillo
I’d love to get the book The Winter Fox for our precious miracle baby boy!
The Christmas Fairy looks good.
I would say A Christmas for Bear.
Pick a Pine Tree sounds like a good one!
A Day at the Dinosaur Museum
I would love to read “The Twelve Days of Christmas: Panorama Pops” to my son
Thank You for the chance!
I would like to read “The Nutcracker Mice” to my grandchild.
The Christmas fairy looks good