Leaves from a Childs' Garden of Verses

by Chain Sales Marketing

• ISBN13: 9781883746001
• ISBN10: 1883746000
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Chain Sales Marketing

Summary

No volume of children's poetry has left such an indelible mark on so many generations of devoted readers as this Robert Louis Stevenson classic. First published in 1885, Stevenson's sentimental tribute to the joys of childhood has stood the test of time -- it has never been out of print. And so thorough was his understanding of the child psyche and that special place all children create -- a world of imagination filled with castles and kings, clipper ships, pirates, and faraway places -- that grown ups have also adopted it as a favorite reminder of the imaginary world in which they too once lived.

Author Biography

Donna Green spent her early years on her grandparents' New England farm where she learned to value the serenity and independence of country life. Self-taught, she began exhibiting her paintings when she was fifteen. These days, she reserves Saturdays for showing her original works at her studio, a little 18th century cottage located in Cohasset Village along Massachusetts' south shore.

Table of Contents

Time to Rise	p. 10
A Thought	p. 11
The Wind	p. 12
The Swing	p. 13
The Sun's Travels	p. 14
Singing	p. 16
Rain	p. 17
My Kingdom	p. 18
Happy Thought	p. 19
The Moon	p. 20
From A Railway Carriage	p. 21
A Good Boy	p. 22
Pirate Story	p. 24
Foreign Lands	p. 25
Travel	p. 26
A Good Play	p. 28
The Land of Counter Pane	p. 29
My Ship and I	p. 30
My Shadow	p. 32
Fairy Bread	p. 33
The Unseen Playmate	p. 34
Marching Song	p. 36
Armies in the Fire	p. 37
Block City	p. 38
My Bed Is a Boat	p. 40
The Land of Storybooks	p. 41
The Flowers	p. 42
Where Go the Boats?	p. 44
The Gardener	p. 45
Summer Sun	p. 46
At the Seaside	p. 47
The Cow	p. 48
The Hayloft	p. 49
Farewell to the Farm	p. 50
Autumn Fires	p. 52
Escape at Bedtime	p. 53
Picture-Books in Winter	p. 54
Windy Nights	p. 56
Bed in Summer	p. 57
Wintertime	p. 58
Night and Day	p. 60
Keepsake Mill	p. 62
My Treasures	p. 64
Looking Forward	p. 65
To Willie and Henrietta	p. 66
Young Night Thought	p. 68
The Land of Nod	p. 69
To My Mother	p. 70
North-West Passage	p. 72
To Any Reader	p. 74
First Line Index	p. 76
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