A Child’s Garden of Verses (Illustrated Classic): 100th Anniversary Collection

SeaWolf Press is proud to offer another book in its Robert Louis Stevenson 100th Anniversary Collection. Each book in the collection contains the text, illustrations, and cover from first or early editions. Use Amazon’s Lookinside feature to compare this edition with others. You’ll be impressed by the differences. If you like our book, be sure to leave a review! Our version has: Over 88 original illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. Don’t be fooled by other versions with missing or made-up pictures. Text that has been proofread to avoid errors common in other versions. A beautiful cover that reproduces an early painting. The complete text in an easy-to-read font similar to the original. Properly formatted text complete with correct indenting, spacing, footnotes, italics, and tables. Look for other Robert Louis Stevenson books in our 100th Anniversary Collection. A Child’s Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children about childhood, illness, play and solitude 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 classics “Foreign Children,” “The Lamplighter,” “The Land of Counterpane,” “Bed in Summer,” “My Shadow” and “The Swing.”