The Velveteen Rabbit
The Velveteen Rabbit By Margery Williams Listen to the story The Velveteen Rabbit starts on Christmas morning. A young boy finds a stuffed rabbit nestled in his stocking. He loves the rabbit but forgets about him when more glamorous and expensive Christmas presents arrive. But the chance will intervene twice in this magical story about childhood toys and the transformative power of love. We feature it in Christmas Stories for Children. There was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning, he was 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…