A Child's Garden of Verses

"A Child's Garden of Verses" is a collection of poetry for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title "Penny Whistles", but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics "Foreign Children," "The Lamplighter," "The Land of Counterpane," "Bed in Summer," "My Shadow" and "The Swing."

External links

* [http://www.mediainformatics.biz/kidsbook/land.html The Land of Counterpane] The fairy tale, lushly illustrated in [http://mediainformatics.biz/kidsbook The Colorful Story Book] of 1941.
* [http://www.reelyredd.com/0401forchild.htm Reely's Poetry Pages] Hear "Foreign Children"
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/136 Text of "A Child's Garden of Verses"]
* [http://librivox.org/a-childs-garden-of-verses-by-robert-louis-stevenson/ Free audiobook of "A Child's Garden of Verses"] from [http://librivox.org librivox.org]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239299/ 1992 animated film (information from IMDB)]