A Child's Garden of Verses - Robert Louis Stevenson

A Child's Garden of Verses is a classic poetry collection by Robert Louis Stevenson. This paperback edition presents all sixty-four poems in large, easy-to-read type, with new illustrations by Thea Kliros.

Key details

• Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 96
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 28 March 2003
• ISBN: 9780486273013

Synopsis

Stevenson dedicated this long-treasured collection to Alison Cunningham, the nurse of his early childhood in Edinburgh, and shaped its sixty-four poems to recapture something of that time. Familiar pieces including “The Land of Counterpane”, “The Land of Nod”, “My Bed Is a Boat”, “Autumn Fires” and “Windy Nights” have been shared by children and parents since the book’s first publication in 1885.

By turns humorous and whimsical, grave and fearful, courageous and determined, the poems give voice to the shifting moods and currents of a child’s imaginings. New illustrations by Thea Kliros are designed to reflect the magical spirit of this beloved work of children’s literature, making it well suited to reading aloud and family sharing.

Rackhams Reference : Z2H3FL8DHG