Child's Garden of Verses

Scottish novelist, poet and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson dedicated ""A Child's Garden of Verses"" 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.



""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 the many moods and currents of a child's imaginings. Reprinted in large, easy-to-read type, with 6 new illustrations by Thea Kliros that capture the magical spirit of this beloved classic of children's literature.