A Child's Garden of Verses

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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."

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• The Land of Counterpane The fairy tale, lushly illustrated in The Colorful Story Book of 1941.
• Reely's Poetry Pages Hear "Foreign Children"
• Text of A Child's Garden of Verses
• Free audiobook of "A Child's Garden of Verses" from librivox.org
• 1992 animated film (information from IMDB)

v • d • e Works by Robert Louis Stevenson Novels: Treasure Island (1883) • Prince Otto (1885) • Kidnapped (1886) • The Black Arrow (1888) • The Master of Ballantrae (1889) • The Wrong Box (1889) • The Wrecker (1892) • Catriona (1893) • The Ebb-Tide (1894) • Weir of Hermiston (1896) • St. Ives (1897) Short story collections: New Arabian Nights (1882) • The Dynamiter (1885) • The Merry Men (1887) • Island Nights' Entertainments (1893) Short stories: "The Body Snatcher" (1881) • "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886) Other works: An Inland Voyage (1878) • Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) • The Silverado Squatters (1883) • Memories and Portraits (1887) • Across the Plains (1892) • The Amateur Emigrant (1895) Poetry: A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) • Underwoods (1887) • Ballads (1890) • Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)