A Child's Garden of Verses, Paperback

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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. 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.""