The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams

A proper book for children, like the amazing story of the Velveteen Rabbit, will always prove useful for those parents who read to their children. Children come into this world like true angels. They absorb genuine knowledge and offer unconditional love. So, it largely depends on adults whether this divine ability will prevail or will be wasted in the world where people trade real values for expensive but superficial things. Svitovyy best·seler. Odna z tykh istoriy, yaki ne stariyut i ne vtrachayut aktualnosti. Vpershe nadrukovana u 1922 rotsi, bahatorazovo perevydana, ekranizovana, pokazana v teatri i po telebachennyu, vona mayzhe sto rokiv zalyshayetsya tsikavoyu yak dlya malenkykh ditey, tak i dlya yikh batkiv. Knyzhka rozpovidaye pro te, yak prostenkyy velvetovyy krolyk stav ulyublenoyu ihrashkoyu khlopchyka, yakyy ne rozluchavsya z nym ani vden, ani vnochi i ne prominyav by yoho ni na yaki nabahato tsikavishi i krasyvishi ihrashky. Krolyk vidchuvav sebe takym potribnym i vid tsoho neymovirno shchaslyvym. Yedyne, shcho trokhy zasmuchuvalo, tse yoho «nespravzhnist». Ta shchastya bulo zruynovane khvoroboyu khlopchyka. Malyuk, zvychayno, vyduzhav, ale likar nakazav pozbutysya usikh rechey, shcho otochuvaly khvoroho. Tomu krolyku dovelos «zahubytysya». I vin zaplakav spravzhnimy slozamy, ale ne vid toho, shcho yoho mozhut spalyty, a vid rozluky z khlopchykom. Vreshti-resht, ihrashku vryatuvala feya, yaka vidnesla krolyka v lis i zdiysnyla yoho mriyu staty spravzhnim. Tsya dytyacha kazka maye neabyyaku hlybynu, navchaye tym istynam, yaki roblyat lyudynu spravzhnoyu, zdatnoyu lyubyty, proshchaty i buty potribnoyu.