A Child's Garden of Verses

by RobertLouisStevenson (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $3.24

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  1969

  $3.24

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $14.51

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $14.01

  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.