A Child's Garden of Verses

by RobertLouisStevenson (Author), EricKincaid (Illustrator)

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $4.61

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  Paperback
  1997

  $18.93

  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.

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  Hardcover
  

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $15.08

  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.