A Child's Garden of Verses
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4.5 • 38 Ratings
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Publisher Description
An Apple Books Classics edition.
In this timeless collection of 64 poems, Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson captures the sweet nostalgia of childhood. Revisit the magic of flowering gardens, a secret land of dreams, and the comfort of imaginary friends in lonely times. A Child’s Garden of Verses is a perfect way to introduce young readers to poetry—make it a bedtime ritual. Adult readers, meanwhile, will love being transported back to a time when their worries and pleasures were those of a child.
Customer Reviews
A lone well-to-do child
I was curious to read the book of poems as I love RLS’s prose. I found some if the poems charming, the rhymes clever, and the themes appropriate. A couple of poems—actually, many of them—drip with condescending colonialism. The poems appear to be written for an upper-middle class, single male child. The boy has a nurse, and a gardener, and a cook whom he calls “cook.” Other than that, it was a charming, pleasant read.
Missing table of contents
As far as the quality of literature it is fantastic, but as an ebook it is missing a few features. This copy of the book does not provide a table of contents. There fore if you are looking for a specific poem you will have to sift through the whole book. Ibooks does have another free version that allows you to see the table of contents and click the page to arrive to it without going through the whole book.