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Overview

This classic treasury by Robert Louis Stevenson invites children to take their first steps into the immense world that lies before them. Illustrated with more than 100 pictures by the most distinguished children's book illustrators of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this stunning edition brings together some of the world's best-loved poems and most enchanting art.

Lavishly illustrated, this collection contains all the poems that appeared in the original edition published more than a century ago. Children's imaginations can roam freely through simple, evocative verses that explore the wonders of exotic lands, the magic of day passing into night, the sheer joy of swinging through the sun-filled air, and the coziness of dreaming in front of a fire on a winter's night. The pictures, brimming with color and lush detail, brilliantly capture this universal splendor of a child's imaginative world.

A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of children.

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Publishers Weekly
Rendered in brilliant candy-shop colors, Joanna Isles's folk-art designs, whimsical characters and striking typestyles put a beguiling face on a beloved work: Abrams's edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses glows with charm and vitality.
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A plethora of poetry books arrive just in time for National Poetry Month. Now available in a board book edition, A Child's Garden of Verses, compiled by Cooper Edens, pairs eight of Robert Louis Stevenson's poems with turn-of-the-century illustrations to captivate a child's imagination. For instance, "Happy Thought" ("The world is so full of a number of things,/ I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings") is embedded like a placard within a pen-and-ink by E. Mars (1900), while opposite, a 1940 illustration by Ruth Mary Hallock depicts a happy assembly of children and kittens, gathering for a snack break after a game of croquet. (Mar.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Children's Literature
These classic poems and the equally classic illustrations have been repackaged in a board book format. The poems are fairly complex even for an older reader and the idea that they will be appreciated and understood by children under the age of four seems to be a bit of a stretch. Perhaps the soothing sounds are sufficient and perhaps it is never too soon to introduce complex language, but I do think children of this age will get a lot more enjoyment out of simple nursery rhymes. This board book, in my opinion is really not one I would select for young children. It may be quite useful in programs where children who are older cannot handle regular books and it may even appeal to grandparents and great-grandparents who enjoy looking at the pictures created nearly 100 years ago. 2004 (orig. 1989), Chronicle Books, Ages 6 mo. to 4.
—Marilyn Courtot
Children's Literature
A whole new generation of children and their parents will delight in discovering this reissue of Stevenson's poetry. Where else can one find such an excellent description of a child enjoying a ride on a swing, having fun with his/her shadow, erecting a wondrous city made of blocks, or sharing time with an imaginary playmate. The whole world opens up in such poems as "Foreign Lands," "Picture Books in Winter," and "My Bed is a Boat." A child's imagination is perfectly portrayed in "The Little Land" as the little boy closes his eyes and goes sailing off to the forest and fairyland and eventually returns home. The illustrations in both black-and-white sketches and full color perfectly capture the mood and action of each poem. Every picture is filled with details to enhance the words that illuminate the timelessness of childhood. A copy of this title should be in every collection, both in libraries and homes. Reviewer: Sylvia Firth

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780060282288
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 2/22/2011
  • Pages: 80
  • Sales rank: 57,518
  • Age range: 4 - 8 Years
  • Product dimensions: 8.60 (w) x 11.10 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Robert Louis  Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a novelist, poet, short-story writer, and essayist. In 1883, while bedridden with tuberculosis, he wrote what would become one of the best known and most beloved collections of children's poetry in the English language, A Child's Garden of Verses. Block City is taken from that collection. Stevenson is also the author of such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Tasha Tudor is a Caldecott artist with more than ninety books to her credit. She is known across the world for her glowing watercolor decpictions of the American rural scene of a century ago and for her exquisite paintings of children, flowers, and animals. Tasha Tudor is also the illustrator of A Child's Garden of Verses, The Night Before Christmas, The Springs of Joy, A Time to Keep, The Dolls' Christmas, All for Love, Pumpkin Moonshine, A Tale for Easter, A is for Annabelle, and 1 is One, a Caldecott Honor Book. She lives in Vermont.

Biography

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh. His father was an engineer, the head of a family firm that had constructed most of Scotland's lighthouses, and the family had a comfortable income. Stevenson was an only child and was often ill; as a result, he was much coddled by both his parents and his long-time nurse. The family took frequent trips to southern Europe to escape the cruel Edinburgh winters, trips that, along with his many illnesses, caused Stevenson to miss much of his formal schooling. He entered Edinburgh University in 1867, intending to become an engineer and enter the family business, but he was a desultory, disengaged student and never took a degree. In 1871, Stevenson switched his study to law, a profession which would leave time for his already-budding literary ambitions, and he managed to pass the bar in 1875.

Illness put an end to his legal career before it had even started, and Stevenson spent the next few years traveling in Europe and writing travel essays and literary criticism. In 1876, Stevenson fell in love with Fanny Vandergrift Osbourne, a married American woman more than ten years his senior, and returned with her to London, where he published his first fiction, "The Suicide Club." In 1879, Stevenson set sail for America, apparently in response to a telegram from Fanny, who had returned to California in an attempt to reconcile with her husband. Fanny obtained a divorce and the couple married in 1880, eventually returning to Europe, where they lived for the next several years. Stevenson was by this time beset by terrifying lung hemorrhages that would appear without warning and required months of convalescence in a healthy climate. Despite his periodic illnesses and his peripatetic life, Stevenson completed some of his most enduring works during this period: Treasure Island (1883), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), Kidnapped (1886), and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).

After his father's death and a trip to Edinburgh which he knew would be his last, Stevenson set sail once more for America in 1887 with his wife, mother, and stepson. In 1888, after spending a frigid winter in the Adirondack Mountains, Stevenson chartered a yacht and set sail from California bound for the South Pacific. The Stevensons spent time in Tahiti, Hawaii, Micronesia, and Australia, before settling in Samoa, where Stevenson bought a plantation called Vailima. Though he kept up a vigorous publishing schedule, Stevenson never returned to Europe. He died of a sudden brain hemorrhage on December 3, 1894.

Author biography from the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Good To Know

It has been said that Stevenson may well be the inventor of the sleeping bag -- he described a large fleece-lined sack he brought along to sleep in on a journey through France in his book Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes.

Long John Silver, the one-legged pirate cook in Stevenson's classic Treasure Island, is said to be based on the author's friend William Ernest Henley, whom he met when Henley was in Edinburgh for surgery to save his one good leg from tuberculosis.

Stevenson died in 1894 at Vailima,, his home on the South Pacific island of Upolu, Samoa. He was helping his wife make mayonnaise for dinner when he suffered a fatal stroke.

    1. Also Known As:
      Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
    1. Date of Birth:
      November 13, 1850
    2. Place of Birth:
      Edinburgh, Scotland
    1. Date of Death:
      December 3, 1894
    2. Place of Death:
      Vailima, Samoa

Read an Excerpt

Bed in Summer

In winter I get up at night

And dress by yellow candle-light.

In summer quite the other way,

I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see

The birds still hopping on the tree,

Or hear the grown-up people's feet

Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,

When all the sky is clear and blue,

And I should like so much to play,

To have to go to bed by day?

Table of Contents

Bed in Summer 9
A Thought 10
At the Seaside 11
Young Night Thought 12
Whole Duty of Children 13
Rain 14
Pirate Story 16
Foreign Lands 18
Windy Nights 20
Travels 21
Singing 23
Looking Forward 24
A Good Play 25
Where Go the Boats 26
Auntie's Skirts 27
The Land of Counterpane 29
The Land of Nod 30
My Shadow 32
System 35
A Good Boy 36
Escape at Bedtime 38
Marching Song 40
The Cow 42
Happy Thought 44
The Wind 46
Keepsake Mill 48
Good and Bad Children 49
Foreign Children 50
The Sun's Travels 52
The Lamplighter 53
My Bed is a Boat 54
The Moon 57
The Swing 58
Time to Rise 59
Looking-Glass River 60
Fairy Bread 62
From a Railway Carriage 64
Wintertime 65
The Hayloft 66
Farewell to the Farm 68
North-West Passage
1 Good Night 69
2 Shadow March 70
3 In Port 71
The Child Alone
The Unseen Playmate 74
My Ship and I 75
My Kingdom 76
Picture Books in Winter 78
My Treasures 80
Block City 81
The Land of Storybooks 82
Armies in the Fire 84
The Little Land 86
Garden Days
Night and Day 90
Nest Eggs 92
The Flowers 94
Summer Sun 96
The Dumb Soldier 98
Autumn Fires 100
The Gardener 102
Historical Associations 104
Envoys
To Willie and Henrietta 106
To my Mother 107
To Auntie 108
To Minnie 110
To my Name-Child 113
To any Reader 116
Acknowledgements 118
Robert Louis Stevenson 120
A Short Biography

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 22, 2003

    A 53 year old Grandmother

    I read this book as a child and read my copy to my own children. Somewhere along the way I lost my book. When my first grandchild was born nine years ago, I tried to find it again in the bookstores. It was not available and I turned to another, similar book. It is not nearly as good. I am thrilled to find "A Child's Garden of Verses" again. It is wonderful literature and our children today need that. I can still recite some of the poetry even after all these years. Kudos--don't ever let it go out of print.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 26, 2007

    Beyond Outstanding!!

    This poetry is not only for children to read, but also for them to relate to and learn from. All children should own this book.

    7 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 14, 2001

    The wonder of childhood....

    Poems are perfectly chosen words which are a pleasure to read. Writing them is a true art and Robert Louis Stevenson is able to perfect this art by remembering his own childhood. These poems were written between 1881 and 1884. This is a selection from the most popular collection of poems about childhood in the English language. Each poem is accompanied by evocative paintings, which are as vibrant as the words in each poem. The paintings are impressions of color and light and show children and a few animals on beautiful canvases of cities, gardens, meadows and seas. The poems are about flying kites, cows which give cream to enjoy with apple-tart, flowers where fairies live, children sitting in the warm sun, children on a swing, children playing with toy boats and children playing in gardens who will never grow up as they are frozen in time in the beautiful pictures. Here is an example of part of the first poem in the book. THE WIND I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies skirts across the grass- What lovely poems to share with a child. Highly recommended!

    5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 29, 2002

    timeless

    My mother read this book to my brothers and I. I am now reading it to my daughter. I read several poems to my 13 mo. old daughter every night. The rhythm of each verse calms her and gets her ready for bedtime.

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 8, 2000

    Childhood Memories

    This book was read to me as a child, I in turn read it to my sister, then to my children. Twenty years later, I am buying one for my first grandchild! I have searched resale shops and libraries for the very edition I had as a child, and this is it! I remember all the wonderful illustrations and poems so well. Looking at the pictures and words brings back so many fond memories and I can't wait to pass that on to my grandchild!

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 29, 2009

    Timeless children's poetry

    This is my favorite children's book because it grows with a child. An infant loves to be read poetry because of the cadence, a toddler likes hearing familiar words, and an older child enjoys the story. The poetry is classic.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted August 23, 2011

    Absolutely Wonderful Poetry

    I've long since lost the copy I had as a child, much to my dismay, and I am THRILLED to see that I can still acquire this book again. Never since have I seen such wonderful poetry for children as what Robert Louis Stevenson did. And the illustrations that were in the copy that I had (put out by Little Golden Books) were so lush and beautiful, they captured the poems so magically that it was easy for me to see what the poems were talking about as a child. This is something I am VERY much looking forward to reading to my own children.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted July 2, 2011

    Sweeeeeeeeeeeet!

    Awsome book for people of all age's.

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  • Posted April 2, 2011

    fun to look back

    I had this book when I was a kid...a long long time ag

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  • Posted March 9, 2011

    must have

    classic poems. I remember memorizing poems from this collection in second grade.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 16, 2012

    Beautiful Classic

    It was a gift. It was most appreciated.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 17, 2012

    Charming edition of a well known children's classic

    Nice illustrations and layout. I purchased this for my granddaughter but I am thinking of saving it for another year. I think 6 years is young enough to share this classic with children - because of the vocabulary. I consider it a classic that every child should own. This is a charming edition.

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  • Posted March 6, 2012

    Comprehensive and contemporary ...

    The modern illustrations give this comprehensive collection of Robert Louis Stevenson poems a more identifiable connection for contemporary readers.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 7, 2012

    Too many mistakes.

    This version is unreadable due to OCR mistakes.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 9, 2012

    Highly recommended.

    I buy A Child's Garden of Verses for friends and children. It was a favorite when I was a child, and I have found it to be very good for repeated reading to small children and elderly friends. We enjoy the familiar rhymes together.
    And it is a good way to introduce children to new words.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 2, 2012

    Nook verizon from google bad

    This is a digitized version....i wanted scanned original pages...no pics...lots of text errors

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  • Posted December 31, 2011

    Highly Recommended

    I bought this for my granddaughter because I want her to learn some of the poems that my mother taught to me and to her elementary school students. The illustrations are so beautiful!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 25, 2011

    Ok

    This is great but A LOT of mistakes

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 10, 2011

    Great book

    All around great book for the price its offered at.

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  • Posted July 4, 2011

    more from this reviewer

    Downloaded but nothing there?..

    Book downloaded but wont open, just has download across it

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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