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Given the Velveteen Rabbit's transformation from a doll to a real creature through the Boy's love, the book demonstrates that the boundary between the "real" and the "unreal" can be crossed, although through magic.
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
"The Boy's Uncle made me Real," he said.
"That was a great many years ago; but once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."
Interestingly, the book portrays a being as able to go from "unreal" to "real," but not the other way around, as noted by the Skin Horse.
"I am the nursery magic Fairy," she said. "I take care of all the playthings that the children have loved. When they are old and worn out and the children don't need them any more, then I come and take them away with me and turn them into Real."
The fairy's comment once again reinforces that a being can cross the boundary through magic, and thus protrays "realness" and not an innate, unchangeable concept but a trait that could be acquired through transformation.
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