| A Child's Garden of Verses Revised Edition Contributor(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486273016 ISBN-13: 9780486273013 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $4.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1992 Annotation: "The Land of Counterpane," "My Bed is a Boat," "The Land of Nod" and over 60 other poems children and their parents have cherished for over a century. Humorous and whimsical, grave and fearful, courageous and determined, these poems voice many moods. Reprinted in large, easy-to-read type, with 6 new illustrations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Poetry - General |
| Dewey: 821.8 |
| LCCN: 92025818 |
| Series: Dover Children's Thrift Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.24" H x 5.17" W x 8.25" (0.18 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Scottish novelist, poet and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson dedicated A Child's Garden ofVerses to Alison Cunningham, the nurse of his early childhood years in Edinburgh--a time whose essence he strove to recapture in the sixty-four poems of this long-treasured collection. Here, in The Land of Counterpane and The Land of Nod, and in such delightful lyrics as My Bed Is a Boat, Autumn Fires and Windy Nights, are rhymes and images children and their parents have cherished together since A Child's Garden of Verses was first published in 1885. Alternately humorous and whimsical, grave and fearful, courageous and determined, the poems touchingly voice the many moods and currents of a child's imaginings. All sixty-four poems are reprinted in this edition in large, easy-to-read type. New illustrations by Thea Kliros capture the magical spirit of this beloved classic of children's literature. |