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Design to make bedtime a dream in tonight tonight's story we're reading another classic tale from my bookshelf the velveteen rabbit. It's a story about a stuffy who learns what it is to actually be a real bunny.

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There was once a velveteen rabbit and in the beginning he was really splendid.

He was fat and bunchy as a rabbit should be.

His coat was spotted brown and white. He had real thread whiskers and

his ears were lined with pink satine. On Christmas morning when he sat wedged in the top of the boy's

stocking with a sprig of holly between his paws, the effect was charming.

There were other things in the stocking, nuts and oranges and a toy engine, and chocolate almonds and a toy engine chocolate almonds and a clockwork mouse.

But the rabbit was quite the best of all.

For at least two hours the boy loved him and then aunts and uncles came to dinner and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels and in the

the excitement of looking at all the new presents the velveteen rabbit was

forgotten. For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor and no one thought very much about him.

He was naturally shy and being only made of velveteen

Some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him

The mechanical toys were very superior and looked down upon everyone else.

They were full of modern ideas and pretended they were real.

The model boat who had lived through two seasons and lost most of his

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