The Velveteen Rabbit
Margery Williams, 1922.
A stuffed velveteen rabbit is a little boy's favorite toy, and the wise old Skin Horse tells him that being loved for a long time makes a toy Real. A short, gentle story about love that has been read aloud for a hundred years.
Public-domain text. First published in 1922; Margery Williams died in 1944, so this text is in the public domain in the US, Canada, the EU and India. Summary and notes written by ViralScopeHub.