The Velveteen Rabbit

In this extraordinary new edition.  Donna Green’s beautiful and evocative paintings bring poignant meaning to a classic tale that remains as compelling today as when it was first published in 1922.

Margery Williams’ famous story tells of a young boy and his treasured favorite toy, a splendid “fat and bunchy” rabbit, whose ears are lined with pink sateen.  He carries it everywhere, talks to it, pretends with it, and sleeps with it each night.  The love he steadfastly bestows on his toy helps him through a serious illness and afterwards saves his beloved bunny from a terrible fate.

Now Donna Green brings her own perspective to Margery Williams’ wise and wonderful words.  Her goal, she says “… is to enable the reader to enter the world of children, to experience the story as they do.  Margery Williams wanted us to see through the eyes of a child. So do I.”

For this new edition Green has created superb oil-on-canvas works that are fresh and innocent, painted with a soft, tender touch that is utterly her own.  She has conjured up a vision that is timeless and complete, ensuring that the millions of parents and grandparents who have read and loved this charming story will be enchanted anew, along with their children and grandchildren who are reading it for the first time.