A Child's Garden of Verses

by RobertLouisStevenson (Author), JannatMessenger (Illustrator)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.25

• Used

  Paperback
  1969

  $3.25

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $12.96

• 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.