A Child's Garden of Verses (Puffin Classics)

by Robert Louis Stevenson (Author), Eve Garnett (Illustrator)

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.24

  Rediscover the delight and innocence of childhood in these classic poems from celebrated author, Robert Louis Stevenson. From make-believe to climbing trees, bedtime stories to morning play and favourite cousins to beloved mothers. Here is a very special collection to be treasured forever.

• Used

  Paperback
  1969

  $3.24

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $13.98

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $14.00

  Stevenson's gift as an author and poet for children lay partly in his lack of condescension towards them, and he preserved a large element of the child in his own personality. He wrote many of these poems whilst ill in bed, and the illustrations were first published shortly after his death.