A Child's Garden of Verses

by Brian Wildsmith (Illustrator), RobertLouisStevenson (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1966

  $3.25

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $3.25

  The sixty-four poems in A Child's Garden of Verses are a masterly evocation of childhood from the author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped. They are full of delightful irony, wit and the fantasy worlds of childhood imagination, and introduce for the first time the Land of Nod. But they are also touched with a genuine and gentle pathos at times as they recall a world which seems so far away from us now. This edition, which includes Charles Robinson's charming illustrations and vignettes, is described as the definitive edition by The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature.

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  Hardcover
  1990

  $3.25

  First published in 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson's collection of children's verse is now a classic. This edition is the complete version and is illustrated in colour by a wide range of artists from the late 19th to early 20th century including Charles Robinson, Willebeck Le Mair, Millicent Sowerby and Margaret Tarrant. The author, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), born and educated in Edinburgh, was both a poet and a novelist. His adventure stories for children, Kidnapped and Treasure Island are regarded as classics as is his novel for adults The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde . Many of the poems form A Child's Garden of Verses are included in poetry anthologies and Block City a single poem, has been published as a book.

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $14.03

  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.