A Garden of Songs: For Singing and Piping at Home and School

by Robert Louis Stevenson

This collection, designed for children from six to ten years of age, presents songs set to the classic poems of Robert louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses, along with songs with lyrics by William Blake, Christina Rossetti, and a few others. This delightfully illustrated book has melodies that explore the interval of the fifth and the pentatonic mode and can be used with or without the accompaniment of c-flutes and recorders.

64 pages, Spiral-bound

First published May 1, 1997

About the author

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of 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 literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.