A Child's Garden of Verses
This volume contains a compilation of delightful children's poems written by Robert Louis Stevenson. This timeless treasury is ideal for introducing children to poetry, and it would make for a great addition to collections of related literature. The poems of this anthology include: "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", and more. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850 - 1894) was a famous Scottish essayist, novelist, poet, and travel writer whose famous works include "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.
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A Child's Garden of Verses
This volume contains a compilation of delightful children's poems written by Robert Louis Stevenson. This timeless treasury is ideal for introducing children to poetry, and it would make for a great addition to collections of related literature. The poems of this anthology include: "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", and more. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850 - 1894) was a famous Scottish essayist, novelist, poet, and travel writer whose famous works include "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.
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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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Overview

This volume contains a compilation of delightful children's poems written by Robert Louis Stevenson. This timeless treasury is ideal for introducing children to poetry, and it would make for a great addition to collections of related literature. The poems of this anthology include: "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", and more. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850 - 1894) was a famous Scottish essayist, novelist, poet, and travel writer whose famous works include "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781473375307
Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
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

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.


Barbara McClintock has written and illustrated many acclaimed books for young readers, including Adèle & Simon, an ALA Notable Book, a Children's Book Sense Pick, and a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year, and Dahlia, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book. She lives in Windham, Connecticut.

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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