A Child's Garden of Verses (Gollancz Children's Classics)

by Michael Foreman (Illustrator), Michael Foreman (Illustrator), Michael Foreman (Illustrator), Robert Louis Stevenson (Author)

• Used

  Illustrated
  1996

  $3.62

• Used

  Paperback
  1969

  $3.25

• Used

  Hardcover
  1979

  $3.25

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $14.06

  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.