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Book

Robert Louis Stevenson

Call Number

  • J 821 STEV (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Sterling, c2000.

Physical Description

48 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.

Summary

An illustrated collection of thirty-two popular poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, mostly from "A Child's Garden of Verses." Includes an introduction about the poet's life and work.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

  • Time to rise
  • Bed in summer
  • Happy thought
  • Whole duty of children
  • Singing
  • Rain
  • Summer sun
  • Swing
  • At the sea-side
  • Visit from the sea
  • Where go the boats?
  • Keepsake mill
  • Travel
  • Sun's travels
  • Land of Nod
  • Escape at bedtime
  • Young night-thought
  • Night and day
  • Foreign lands
  • My shadow
  • Autumn fires
  • Pirate story
  • Little land
  • Land of counterpane
  • Winter-time
  • Windy nights
  • Nest eggs
  • Wind
  • From a railway carriage
  • Song of the road
  • Block city
  • Requiem.

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