A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by Elinor Gene Hoffman

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A Child's Garden of Verses is the most popular collection of poems about childhood in the English language. The poems describe activities, feelings, and fantasies familiar to children. The perfectly chosen words and lively rhythms and rhyme have enchanted generations of young readers. Included in this reading by Elinor Gene Hoffman are 52 poems:

1 Bed in Summer 2 A Thought 3 At the Sea-side 4 Young Night-Thought 5 Whole Duty of Children 6 Rain 7 Pirate Story 8 Foreign Lands 9 Windy Nights 10 Travel 11 Singing 12 Looking Forward 13 A Good Play 14 Where Go the Boats? 15 Auntie's Skirts 16 The Land of Counterpane 17 The Land of Nod 18 My Shadow 19 System 20 A Good Boy 21 Escape at Bedtime 22 Marching Song 23 The Cow 24 The Happy Thought 25 The Wind 26 Good and Bad Children

27 Foreign Children 28 The Sun's Travels 29 The Lamplighter 30 My Bed is a Boat 31 The Moon 32 The Swing 33 Time to Rise 34 Fairy Bread 35 From a Railway Carriage 36 The Hayloft 37 Farewell to the Farm 38 The Unseen Playmate 39 My Ship and I 40 My Kingdom 41 Picture-books in Winter 42 My Treasures 43 Block City 44 The Land of Story-books 45 The Little Land 46 Nest Eggs 47 The Flowers 48 Summer Sun 49 The Dumb Soldier 50 Autumn Fires 51 The Gardener 52 To Any Reader

 


About the Author

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1850, the only son of a wealthy engineer. His childhood was plagued by illness, making regular schooling impossible. Stevenson was a lively man of strong words and feelings, who decided to become a writer in his teens. His career took off when he published accounts of his travels. In 1881 he began Treasure Island, which was to make him famous when it was published in 1883. He started A Child's Garden of Verses while working on Treasure Island and revised it during a stay in England after 1884, when he also wrote Kidnaped and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He died suddenly in the South Seas in 1894.

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