The velveteen rabbit illustrations

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Don Daily | ILLUSTRATION | The Velveteen Rabbit

Often times I feel society has a skewed sense of love. To the young, love is something magical – like fairy dust. It lifts you off your feet, makes life sunnier, brighter and heightens your s…

Written for a daughter who was growing up too fast, Margery Williams Bianco’s hundred-year-old story, “The Velveteen Rabbit,” is a memorial to what we all lose in exchange for adulthood.

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Illustration by Komako Sakai | tygertale

“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.” “Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?” “It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It…

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams; illustration by Robyn Officer

"You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept....

Finally did it! ... and in two sizes :) Credit to katinthecupboard for her kind permission and original beautiful image!: www.flickr.com/photos/katinthecupboard/4412011441/in/set-... (My original: flic.kr/p/8Qdzqh ) _______ 'The Music Hour; First Book' Illustrated by Shirley Kite, 1927 'The New Moon' Virginia Baker, G.A. Grant-Schaefer "Shining on high, up in the sky, Like a bright airship the New Moon sails by." ____ Digital work by plumleaves. I stretched some of the landscape but not the…