Robert Louis Stevenson

A Child's Garden of Verses: 100th Anniversary Collection Robert Louis Stevenson

A wonderful collection of poetry for children with 88 original illustrations.

A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children about childhood, illness, play and solitude by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the classics "Foreign Children," "The Lamplighter," "The Land of Counterpane," "Bed in Summer," "My Shadow" and "The Swing."