{"product_id":"2940013649811","title":"The Velveteen Rabbit","description":"List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                          Christmas Morning\u003cbr\u003e                   The Skin Horse Tells His Story\u003cbr\u003e                             Spring Time\u003cbr\u003e                             Summer Days\u003cbr\u003e                            Anxious Times\u003cbr\u003e                          The Fairy Flower\u003cbr\u003e                          At Last! At Last!\u003cbr\u003e  _________________________________________________________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHERE was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really\u003cbr\u003esplendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; his coat was\u003cbr\u003espotted brown and white, he had real thread whiskers, and his ears\u003cbr\u003ewere lined with pink sateen. On Christmas morning, when he sat wedged\u003cbr\u003ein the top of the Boy's stocking, with a sprig of holly between his\u003cbr\u003epaws, the effect was charming.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere were other things in the stocking, nuts and oranges and a toy\u003cbr\u003eengine, and chocolate almonds and a clockwork mouse, but the Rabbit\u003cbr\u003ewas quite the best of all. For at least two hours the Boy loved him,\u003cbr\u003eand then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great\u003cbr\u003erustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the\u003cbr\u003eexcitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was\u003cbr\u003eforgotten.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                          Christmas Morning\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor,\u003cbr\u003eand no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and\u003cbr\u003ebeing only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite\u003cbr\u003esnubbed him. The mechanical toys were very superior, and looked down\u003cbr\u003eupon every one else; they were full of modern ideas, and pretended\u003cbr\u003ethey were real. The model boat, who had lived through two seasons and\u003cbr\u003elost most of his paint, caught the tone from them and never missed an\u003cbr\u003eopportunity of referring to his rigging in technical terms. The Rabbit\u003cbr\u003ecould not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn't know that\u003cbr\u003ereal rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust\u003cbr\u003elike himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and\u003cbr\u003eshould never be mentioned in modern circles. Even Timothy, the jointed\u003cbr\u003ewooden lion, who was made by the disabled soldiers, and should have\u003cbr\u003ehad broader views, put on airs and pretended he was connected with\u003cbr\u003eGovernment. Between them all the poor little Rabbit was made to feel\u003cbr\u003ehimself very insignificant and commonplace, and the only person who\u003cbr\u003ewas kind to him at all was the Skin Horse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others.\u003cbr\u003eHe was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the\u003cbr\u003eseams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled\u003cbr\u003eout to string bead necklaces. He was wise, for he had seen a long\u003cbr\u003esuccession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and\u003cbr\u003eby-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away, and he knew that they\u003cbr\u003ewere only toys, and would never turn into anything else. For nursery\u003cbr\u003emagic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that\u003cbr\u003eare old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all\u003cbr\u003eabout it.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163554332912,"sku":"2940013649811","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013649811_p0.jpg?v=1763596499","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013649811","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}