Oh, I just love The Velveteen Rabbit! Always makes me cry! I went to the openlibrary and read The Skin Horse today, since the article mentions it and I had never read it. It's really quite nice, too!
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Ack, it's by Andrea Long Chu!
omg, no!
On a personal note, and perhaps revealingly - that story always made me cry when I was little.
As an adult, I read it to my daughter, when she was young - and she looked at me and said: are you crying. (Alas, even then)
Oh, I just love The Velveteen Rabbit! Always makes me cry! I went to the openlibrary and read The Skin Horse today, since the article mentions it and I had never read it. It's really quite nice, too!