A Child's Garden Of Verses

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.