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    A Child's Garden of Verses

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    by Robert Louis Stevenson, Barbara McClintock (Illustrator)

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    • ISBN-13: 9780060282288
    • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Publication date: 02/22/2011
    • Pages: 80
    • Product dimensions: 8.60(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.40(d)
    • Age Range: 4 - 8 Years

    Poet and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was the author of a number of classic books for young readers, including Treasure Island , Kidnapped, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Mr. Stevenson was often ill as a child and spent much of his youth confined to his nursery, where he first began to compose stories even before he could read, and where he was cared for by his nanny, Alison Cunningham, to whom A Child's Garden of Verses is dedicated.

    Brief Biography

    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

    Table of Contents

    TO ALISON CUNNINGHAM
    I. Bed in Summer
    II. A Thought
    III. At the Sea-Side
    IV. Young Night Thought
    V. Whole Duty of Children
    VI. Rain
    VII. Pirate Story
    VIII. Foreign Lands
    IX. Windy Nights
    X. Travel
    XI. Singing
    XII. Looking Forward
    XIII. A Good Play
    XIV. Where Go the Boats?
    XV. Auntie's Skirts
    XVI. The Land ofCounterpane
    XVII. The Land of Nod
    XVIII. My Shadow
    XIX. System
    XX. A Good Boy
    XXI. Escape at Bedtime
    XXII. Marching Song
    XXIII. The Cow
    XXIV. Happy Thought
    XXV. The Wind
    XXVI. Keepsake Mill
    XXVII. Good and Bad Children
    XXVIII. Foreign Children
    XXIX. The Sun's Travels
    XXX. The Lamplighter
    XXXI. My Bed Is a Boat
    XXXII. The Moon
    XXIII. The Swing
    XXXIV. Time to Rise
    XXXV. Looking-Glass River
    XXXVI. Fairy Bread
    XXXVII. From a Railway Carriage
    XXXVIII. Winter-Time
    XXXIX. The Hayloft
    XL. Farewell to the Farm
    XLI. North-West Passage
     1. GOOD NIGHT
     2. SHADOW MARCH
     3. IN PORT
    THE CHILD ALONE
    I. The Unseen Playmate
    II. My Ship and I
    III. My Kingdom
    IV. Picture-Books in Winter
    V. My Treasures
    VI. Block City
    VII. The Land of Story-Books
    VIII. Armies in the Fire
    IX. The Little Land
    GARDEN DAYS
    I. Night and Day
    II. Nest Eggs
    III. The Flowers
    IV. Summer Sun
    V. The Dumb Soldier
    VI. Autumn Fires
    VII. The Gardener
    VIII. Historical Associations
    ENVOYS
    I. To Willie and Henrietta
    II. To My Mother
    III. To Auntie
    IV. To Minnie
    V. To My Name-Child
    VI. To Any Reader

    Alphabetical List of Titles
    Alphabetical List of First Lines

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    First published in 1885, poet and storyteller Robert Louis Steven­son’s classic tribute to the lives of children has delighted readers for more than a century. From flying through the air on a swing to building an imaginary world out of blocks to being tucked into bed for a night of sweet dreams, A Child's Garden of Verses is a joyful celebration of imagination, wonder, and what it means to be a child.

    Lavishly illustrated by beloved artist Barbara McClintock, this new unabridged edition of these classic verses is sure to capture the hearts and imaginations of both young and old for years to come.

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    From the Publisher
    This 'Child's Garden' is a coffee-table book for children or the grown-ups who love them. (Boston Herald -- Sunday Edition)
    Kirkus Reviews
    2017-09-18
    A sumptuous reissue of the classic children's collection.First published in Great Britain in 1885, Stevenson's "Garden," Alexander McCall Smith tells readers in his enlightening new foreword, has been in print ever since. Given the privileged, white, colonialist perspective glimpsed in many of these 64 lyric poems, today's audience may wonder what gives this volume such staying power. Stevenson's nostalgia for the unfettered cares of childhood comes powerfully across throughout. Modern children may have a hard time envisioning his Victorian "Auntie's Skirts" as "they trail behind her up the floor, / And trundle after through the door." More problematically, his worldly vantage is shockingly dated at best: "Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, / Little frosty Eskimo, / Little Turk or Japanee, / O! don't you wish that you were me?" But Stevenson's ability to craft and describe other realms still soars, demonstrating that the imagination can transport one out of anything—illness, boredom, even loneliness. His crisp depictions of winter, causing "tingling thumbs," and appreciation of the childhood hardship of having to go to bed in summer "When all the sky is clear and blue," invite children of any age to "look / Through the windows of this book," and "in another garden, play." Vistas real and imagined blossom again in Stevenson and Foreman's caring hands—but caregivers will want to choose the blooms they share with care. (Poetry. 5-10)
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