A Child's Garden of Verses

A Child's Garden of Verses
First edition cover
AuthorRobert Louis Stevenson
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherLongmans, Green, & Co[1]
Publication date
1885[1]
Pages101[1]
TextA Child's Garden of Verses at Wikisource
Title Page of a 1916 US edition

A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century.[2] The poems, which have been widely imitated, are written from the point of view of a child. Stevenson dedicated the collection to his childhood nurse, Alison Cunningham.[2]

  1. ^ a b c "A Child's Garden of Verses". Abe Books. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b Kuiper, Kathleen (23 March 2011). "A Child's Garden of Verses". Britannica. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2021.