This or The Velveteen Rabbit, which is much older.
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It’s been a long while since I read this book back in the 90s, so I’m not married to my own interpretation. But it could be a lesson in privilege and charity. If you have all the things your community envies, it is healthy to share those things through charity. It’s not just about individuality in appearance, but could be an allegory for wealth and equalization. Like I said, could be way off base since I only remember the gist of it.
No you're pretty much right (it's about sharing, and not being selfish), but the way it's written doesn't make that clear.
I also remembered it as a book symbolizing wealth inequality but the metaphor doesn't work that well.