Wikipedia:Peer review/The Velveteen Rabbit/archive1
The Velveteen Rabbit[edit]
I need someone to look through the prose and let me know what can be expanded upon. b_cubed 21:11, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
- I think you've done great work on the plot summary. I don't know how much information is available on this book, but there are a few additional sections you could work up that would greatly improve the article.
- Background — what led Williams to write The Velveteen Rabbit? What did she write and publish before (and after) this book?
- Reactions and popularity — it is a classic children's book (mentioned in the lead), so you want to expand on that idea. In addition to the Internet, if you have access to a large library or online subscription service, look for early critical reviews of the book, and use more recent reviews to support its timelessness. If you can find a concrete number of books sold (which will probably be hard, since it's probably been published many times), add that. Did the book win any major awards?
- Cultural references — the Friends reference is good, but it needs to be cited (the DVD sets will do). But this book is eighty years old, so it's surely been used in other cultural ways as well. Try to expand this section without making it a straight list of every tiny Velveteen Rabbit-related occurrence.
- Make sure to add inline references if you use a source other than the book itself.
- You have done good work here. Make Way for Ducklings is a featured article covering the scope of an article on a piece of children's literature; use it and other featured novels as guides for expanding the article. McMillin24 contribstalk 03:44, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
--- May I add something as a German reader who just came across a reference to the V.R. (in an episode of "Brothers and Sisters" BTW but I wouldn't consider that as seriously wikipediaworthy). Two questions: have there not been any translations of the book [I'll check that one up myself, at least German and Russian are likely candidates, two very "welcoming" languages for foreign material, despite having sizeable literatures of their own), and #2: Does the owner/boy not have a name? WernR 11 Nov 2007 —Preceding comment was added at 12:26, 11 November 2007 (UTC)