Can toys become real?

As of June 2021, the translation was totally revised and macrons were added.

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Several years ago I became interested—as a hobby—in translating well-known books into Latin. This is one of them:The Velveteen Rabbit or Velvetinus Cuniculus by Margery Williams. If you are just learning Latin, you can place a copy of the English text (which you can easily find online) alongside the Latin to help you get started. ¶ I hesitate offering my illustrations of The Velveteen Rabbit, for the original ones by the Englishman William Nicholson [1872-1949] are, in my opinion, the very best. He alone, among all the illustrators, understood the spirit of the book: Margery Williams did not write about a boy (whom she never named) but about a rabbit. Thus, Nicholson made no picture of the boy. I, too, in my way, have followed William Nicholson’s example, for nowhere in my illustrations is there a picture of the boy. ¶ As for my turning Ms Williams’ story into Latin, I can only say quidni—why not?'

As for the illustrations, I first made a pencil drawing. This I scanned into the computer and outlined it with the pen tool. Next I filled in the outlines digitally in Photoshop. The toys in the illustrations are from the 1920s and 30s and reflect the era in which Margery Williams' book was written.