A Child's Garden of Verses

From the author of Treasure Island, this wonderful book of Robert Louis Stevenson’s poetry for children is brought to life with splendid illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith.

A Child’s Garden of Verses is Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1885 collection of cherished children’s poems. Over 60 lyrical pieces are featured in this anthology, alongside glorious illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. The illustrator is known for her beautiful soft lines and colours, and the artwork in this volume brings much joy to Stevenson’s poetry.

This volume features the following poems:

  • Foreign Children
  • The Lamplighter
  • The Land of Counterpane
  • Bed in Summer
  • My Shadow
  • The Swing
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A Child's Garden of Verses

From the author of Treasure Island, this wonderful book of Robert Louis Stevenson’s poetry for children is brought to life with splendid illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith.

A Child’s Garden of Verses is Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1885 collection of cherished children’s poems. Over 60 lyrical pieces are featured in this anthology, alongside glorious illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. The illustrator is known for her beautiful soft lines and colours, and the artwork in this volume brings much joy to Stevenson’s poetry.

This volume features the following poems:

  • Foreign Children
  • The Lamplighter
  • The Land of Counterpane
  • Bed in Summer
  • My Shadow
  • The Swing
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A Child's Garden of Verses

A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses

A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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From the author of Treasure Island, this wonderful book of Robert Louis Stevenson’s poetry for children is brought to life with splendid illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith.

A Child’s Garden of Verses is Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1885 collection of cherished children’s poems. Over 60 lyrical pieces are featured in this anthology, alongside glorious illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. The illustrator is known for her beautiful soft lines and colours, and the artwork in this volume brings much joy to Stevenson’s poetry.

This volume features the following poems:

  • Foreign Children
  • The Lamplighter
  • The Land of Counterpane
  • Bed in Summer
  • My Shadow
  • The Swing

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781473375307
Publisher: Hewlett Press
Publication date: 11/27/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 66
File size: 256 KB
Age Range: 9 - 15 Years

About the Author

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish writer of novels, essays, poetry, and short stories. He’s best known for his children’s adventure novel ‘Treasure Island’ (1883), his collection of poetry ‘A Child’s Garden of Verses’ (1885), and his Gothic novella ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ (1886). He achieved celebrity status during his lifetime and his works are highly acclaimed to this day.

Date of Birth:

November 13, 1850

Date of Death:

December 3, 1894

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Vailima, Samoa

Education:

Edinburgh University, 1875

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; A Thought; At the Sea-Side; Young Night-Thought; Whole Duty of Children; Rain; Pirate Story; Foreign Lands; Windy Nights; Travel; Singing; Looking Forward; A Good Play; Where Go the Boats?; Auntie’s Skirts; The Land of Counterpane; The Land of Nod; My Shadow; System; A Good Boy; Escape at Bedtime; Marching Song; The Cow; Happy Thought; The Wind; Keepsake Mill; Good and Bad Children; Foreign Children; The Sun Travels; The Lamplighter; My Bed is a Boat; The Moon; The Swing; Time to Rise; Looking-Glass River; Fairy Bread; From a Railway Carriage; Winter-Time; The Hayloft; Farewell to the Farm; North-West Passage; Good-Night; Shadow March; In Port; The Child Alone; The Unseen Playmate; My Ship and I; My Kingdom; Picture-Books in Winter; My Treasures; Block City; The Land of Story-Books; Armies in the Fire; The Little Land; Garden Days; Night and Day; Nest Eggs; The Flowers; Summer Sun; The Dumb Soldier; Autumn Fires; The Gardener; Historical Associations; Envoys; To Willie and Henrietta; To My Mother; To Auntie; To Minnie; To My Name-Child; To Any Reader
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