Childs Garden of Verses

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• Used

  Hardcover
  1979

  $3.50

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $19.03

  A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics Foreign Children, The Lamplighter, The Land of Counterpane, Bed in Summer, My Shadow and The Swing.- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $3.50

  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

  $15.16

  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.