A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jessie Willcox Smith (Illustrator)

Overview

CONTENTS


TO ALISON CUNNINGHAM vii

BED IN SUMMER 3

A THOUGHT 4

AT THE SEA-SIDE 5

YOUNG NIGHT-THOUGHT 6

WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN 7

RAIN 7

PIRATE STORY 8

FOREIGN LANDS 9

WINDY NIGHTS 10

TRAVEL 11

SINGING 13

LOOKING FORWARD 14

A GOOD PLAY 15

WHERE GO THE BOATS? 16

AUNTIE'S SKIRTS 17

THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE 18

THE LAND OF NOD 19

MY SHADOW 20

SYSTEM 22

A GOOD BOY 23

ESCAPE AT BEDTIME 24

MARCHING SONG 25


THE COW 26

HAPPY THOUGHT 27

THE WIND 28

KEEPSAKE MILL 29

GOOD AND BAD CHILDREN 31

FOREIGN CHILDREN 33

THE SUN TRAVELS 35

THE LAMPLIGHTER 36

MY BED IS A BOAT 37

THE MOON 39

THE SWING 40

TIME TO RISE 41

LOOKING-GLASS RIVER 42

FAIRY BREAD 44

FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE 45

WINTER-TIME 46

THE HAYLOFT 47

FAREWELL TO THE FARM 49

NORTH-WEST PASSAGE 50

1. Good-Night 50

2. Shadow March 51

3. In Port 52

THE CHILD ALONE

THE UNSEEN PLAYMATE 57

MY SHIP AND I 59

MY KINGDOM 61

PICTURE-BOOKS IN WINTER 63

MY TREASURES 65

BLOCK CITY 67

THE LAND OF STORY-BOOKS 69

ARMIES IN THE FIRE 71

THE LITTLE LAND 73

GARDEN DAYS

NIGHT AND DAY 79

NEST EGGS 82

THE FLOWERS 84

SUMMER SUN 86

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013443150
Publisher:	SAP
Publication date:	12/05/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	31 KB
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

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.

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