A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Cooper Edens (Compililation)

This beautiful board book features eight of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic poems with antique illustrations by some of the best-known children's book illustrators of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Charles Robinson, H. Willebeek Le Mair and Jessie Willcox Smith. An unforgettable treat for the very youngest readers.

Genres: Childrens, Poetry

20 pages, Board Book

Published December 1, 2003

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.

Reviews

[Margaret Chind]

This board book is new to me, and I look forward to reading it. It was a recommendation in the Memoria Press Level B Curriculum package (ages 3-4). We also happen to own some other editions, abridged and non. And even then I confess to still wanting the Tasha Tudor illustrated version.

[Hannatu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Delightful reading.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

I just learned that my grandmother read this to my mom and her sister when they were little and that she still remembers it fondly. I want to get it for my niece to carry on the tradition...

[Helen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very sweet board book with precious illustrations for the very young. And my newest grandson.