A Child's Garden of Verses - Hardcover

Stevenson, Robert Lewis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684209497 ISBN 13: 9780684209494

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1985

Synopsis

The imaginative world of a child is explored by the nineteenth-century Scottish poet

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Review:

Robert Louis Stevenson's venerated volume of children's poems has prospered during more than a century in print. Here is a comfortable world of sunny gardens and storybooks, where children play with toy soldiers and imaginary friends. You may remember some of these poems from your own childhood, such as "My Shadow," "The Swing," and "The Land of Counterpane". If time is any judge, this garden of delights will stay a perennial favourite.

Review:

This beautifully illustrated edition of a collection first published in 1885 is a reminder of how well many of these poems hold up....As for the poems themselves, Stevenson's interest in cultivating the world of the imagination is a great message for today s busy, media-saturated culture. --School Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0684209497
• ISBN 13: 9780684209494
• Binding: Hardcover