In a message dated 9.12.98 10:11:45 BST, you write:
>
> Have you read the story *The Velveteen Rabbit*?
> In brief: a boy given soft rabbit toy, played with for short time, ends
> up discarded in toy cupboard, talks to old skin horse about being *real*
> and *loved* - old skin horse knows all about this as a family heirloom.
> Boy gets scarlet fever, rabbit is comforter at time, boy gets better,
> ALL toys he has been in contact with while ill must be destroyed!
> .....
> Now you'll have to read it to find out the ending - hint - you'll need
> handkerchief!
> --
> Katie
>
>
KT, can you quote author, publisher etc?
I've heard this book mentioned several times before. Sounds like a bit of a
classic.
Thanks
Grace
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