Here is a delightful look at childhood, written by master poet andstoryteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-sixpoems, Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood, from sailingboats down a river, to waiting for the lamplighter, to sailing offto foreign lands in his imagination. Tasha Tudor's watercolorpaintings evoke a simpler time in the past, and celebrate two ofthe things she loves most -- children and nature. Her talents arethe perfect match for these inspiring poems, making this a handsomegift edition that will be cherished by families forgenerations.

Here is a classic, illustrated edition of one of the best loved poetry collections in the world. Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 pictures by the most distinguished children's book artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this edition of A Child's Garden of Verses contains all the poems that appeared in the original book, published over 100 years ago.
This is a volume to be cherished for a lifetime: by parents and by grandparents who grew up with the poems and, most of all, by children who are being introduced to this extraordinary collection for the first time.