A Child's Garden of Verses: Abridged Edition for Boys and Girls

by Robert Louis Stevenson, E Mars

Overview

"The rain is falling all around,

It falls on field and tree,

It rains on the umbrellas here,

And on the ships at sea."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses

This jacketed hardcover edition of A Child's Garden of Verses-Abridged for Boys and Girls (1902) by Robert Louis Stevenson contains the first 42 of the 65 poems in the original edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's much-loved classic. With numerous illustrations (some in color) by E. Mars and M. H. Squire, its shorter length has made it at the time a popular choice for classroom use.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781646794232
Publisher:	Cosimo Classics
Publication date:	01/01/1900
Pages:	100
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.31(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894), Scottish writer and poet, was born in Edinburgh to a prosperous family of engineers, but gave up the family profession first for law and then for literature. Among his prodigious output as a writer are: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879), Treasure Island (1883), The Black Arrow (1884), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), and Kidnapped (1886).

Date of Birth:

November 13, 1850

Date of Death:

December 3, 1894

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Vailima, Samoa

Education:

Edinburgh University, 1875