The book I read in the library was The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams.
The book has 55 pages.
Key characters include: The velveteen rabbit, Skin Horse, the boy, Nana, the doctor, the fairy, and the real rabbits.
The main settings in the story are: The toy chest, the boy's bed, the garden, the burn pile behind the chicken coop, and the woods.
3 sentence summary: A boy is given a toy rabbit for Christmas. He takes it everywhere, and sleeps with it every night, until he becomes very ill with scarlet fever and a doctor says all of his toys must be burned to make him well again. A fairy saves the toy rabbit from the burn pile, and with the power of the boy's love she turns the toy into a real rabbit to happily live in woods for the rest of forever.
The book includes animal characters and does not use rhyme.
"Once you are real, you can't be ugly to the people who understand." -Skin Horse
This one is a classic. I remember it really upsetting me as a child.
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