"By the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

Thank you for joining me for the

The Velveteen Rabbit.

Don't we all wish for this kind of love, so great, so pure...a love so unconditional that it doesn't matter at all how you look, because you are Real inside - and that is all that matters.

Come with me on this visual & audible journey. Step back to the moment when someone read this to you for the first time.

Click corner of book cover to begin...

"What is...real?"

There are some stories that once read, remain with us for always. They remind us of something so important, something that will change us if we let them. This is such a story.

"By the time you are Real, most of your hair has been

loved off, and your eyes drop out and

you get loose in the joints and

very shabby."