A Child's Garden of Verses (Wordsworth Children's Classics) - Softcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853261416 ISBN 13: 9781853261411

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 1994

Synopsis

The sixty-four poems in A Child's Garden of Verses are a masterly evocation of childhood from the author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped. They are full of delightful irony, wit and the fantasy worlds of childhood imagination, and introduce for the first time the Land of Nod. But they are also touched with a genuine and gentle pathos at times as they recall a world which seems so far away from us now.

This edition, which includes Charles Robinson's charming illustrations and vignettes, is described as the definitive edition by The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature.

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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: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1853261416
• ISBN 13: 9781853261411
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144