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Bed in Summer
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic poem about summer bedtime hours relates how children must go to bed while the sun is still up.
Hardcover, 24 pages
Published
August 1st 2011
by Child's World
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Bed in Summer, by Robert Luis Stevenson, is a short poem meant for children. The poem is from the perspective of a child who is not very happy about having to go to sleep during summer due to the extension of daylight that occurs during the summer. The first stanza compares how waking up in winter is like waking up at night while going to bed in summer is like going to bed during the day. The second and third stanza basically describe why it is so hard for children to go to bed during the summer...more
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A book of poems for children. I would use this book to introduce my students to the art of poetry.
A book of poems for children. I would use this book to introduce my students to the art of poetry.
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Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.
Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of...more
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