A Child's Garden of Verses (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)

by Robert Louis Stevenson (Author), Thea Kliros (Illustrator)

• New

  Illustrated
  1993

  $8.49

• Used

  Paperback
  1969

  $3.22

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $14.42

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $13.93

  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.