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A Child's Garden of Verses (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)

by Robert Louis Stevenson Author

(From Amazon): "The Land of Counterpane," "My Bed is a Boat," "The Land of Nod" and over 60 other poems children and their parents have cherished for over a century. Humorous and whimsical, grave and fearful, courageous and determined, these poems voice the many moods and currents of a child’s imaginings. Reprinted in large, easy-to-read type, with 6 new illustrations by Thea Kliros that capture the magical spirit of this beloved classic of children’s literature.

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Additional Details

Resource Type
Book
ISBN
9780486273013
Print Status
In Print
Poems
64
Pages
96
Publisher
Dover Publications
Copyright
1992

Poems

  • 1 Bed in Summer
  • 2 A Thought
  • 3 At the Sea-Side
  • 4 Young Night Thought
  • 5 Whole Duty of Children
  • 6 Rain
  • 7 Pirate Story
  • 8 Foreign Lands
  • 9 Windy Nights
  • 10 Travel
  • 11 Singing
  • 12 Looking Forward
  • 13 A Good Play
  • 14 Where Go the Boats?
  • 15 Auntie's Skirts
  • 16 The Land of Counterpane
  • 17 The Land of Nod
  • 18 My Shadow
  • 19 System
  • 20 A Good Boy
  • 21 Escape at Bedtime
  • 22 Marching Song
  • 23 The Cow
  • 24 Happy Thought
  • 25 The Wind
  • 26 Keepsake Mill
  • 27 Good and Bad Children
  • 28 Foreign Children
  • 29 The Sun's Travels
  • 30 The Lamplighter
  • 31 My Bed Is a Boat
  • 32 The Moon
  • 33 The Swing
  • 34 Time to Rise
  • 35 Looking-Glass River
  • 36 Fairy Bread
  • 37 From a Railway Carriage
  • 38 Winter-Time
  • 39 The Hayloft
  • 40 Farewell to the Farm
  • 41 Northwest Passage (1. Good Night 2. Shadow March 3. In Port)
  • 1 The Unseen Playmate
  • 2 My Ship and I
  • 3 My Kingdom
  • 4 Picture-Books in Winter
  • 5 My Treasures
  • 6 Block City
  • 7 The Land of Story-Books
  • 8 Armies in the Fire
  • 9 The Little Land
  • 1 Night and Day
  • 2 Nest Eggs
  • 3 The Flowers
  • 4 Summer Sun
  • 5 The Dumb Soldier
  • 6 Autumn Fires
  • 7 The Gardener
  • 8 Historical Associations
  • 1 To Willie and Henrietta
  • 2 To My Mother
  • 3 To Auntie
  • 4 To Minnie
  • 5 To My Name-Child
  • 6 To Any Reader

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