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The Velveteen Rabbit
Nosy Crow Classics (Related to this series)
- Narrator
- Juliet Stevenson
- Publisher
- Nosy Crow Ltd
- Publish Date
- 7 December 2017
- Run Time
- 27 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
The beloved nursery classic by Margery Williams is now available as an audiobook read by Juliet Stevenson.
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 only they are loved enough. The Velveteen Rabbit longs for this to happen until, one day, he finds that he is Boy's very favourite toy. They play together through a long, golden summer and, even though Rabbit becomes shabbier and shabbier, he becomes 'real' to the boy who loves him so much. The rabbits in the garden think otherwise - how can Rabbit be real when he can't leap and hop? But when Boy is ill with Scarlet Fever, and Rabbit is thrown away, Rabbit finally discovers what it truly means to be real. As he sheds a tear, a magical fairy transforms him into a real, wild rabbit, though her parting words remind him that he was always real to the boy.
A classic story about the unbreakable bond between a child and their beloved toy
Discover more audiobooks in the Nosy Crow Classic range including Heidi and Peter Pan.
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Details
- Author
- Margery Williams, illustrated by Sarah Massini
- Narrator
- Juliet Stevenson
- Duration
- 27 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 December 2017
- ISBN
- 9781788003261
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Nosy Crow Ltd
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Picture storybooks: imagination and play, Picture storybooks, Children’s picture books
Synopsis
The beloved nursery classic by Margery Williams is now available as an audiobook read by Juliet Stevenson. 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 only they are loved enough. The Velveteen Rabbit longs for this to happen until, one day, he finds that he is Boy's very favourite toy. They play together through a long, golden summer and, even though Rabbit becomes shabbier and shabbier, he becomes 'real' to the boy who loves him so much. The rabbits in the garden think otherwise - how can Rabbit be real when he can't leap and hop? But when Boy is ill with Scarlet Fever, and Rabbit is thrown away, Rabbit finally discovers what it truly means to be real. As he sheds a tear, a magical fairy transforms him into a real, wild rabbit, though her parting words remind him that he was always real to the boy.A classic story about the unbreakable bond between a child and their beloved toyDiscover more audiobooks in the Nosy Crow Classic range including Heidi and Peter Pan.
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