TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stevenson,Robert Louis
AU  - Foreman,Michael
AU  - McCall Smith,Alexander
TI  - A child's garden of verses
SN  - 9781910959107
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Herefordshire, UK
PB  - Otter-Barry Books
KW  - Children's poetry, English
KW  - Children's poetry, Scottish
KW  - Children's poetry
KW  - English poetry
KW  - Scottish authors
KW  - Poetry
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Illustrated works
N1  - Includes index; Poetry originally published in Great Britain in 1885. First published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz with illustrations by Michael Foreman in 1985; Foreward / Alexander McCall Smith -- Dedication -- Bed in summer -- A thought -- At the seaside -- Young night thought -- Whole duty of children -- Rain -- Pirate story -- Foreign lands -- Windy nights -- Travel -- Singing -- Looking forward -- A good play -- Where go the boats? -- Auntie's skirts -- The land of counterpane -- The land of Nod -- My shadow -- System -- A good boy -- Escape at bedtime -- Marching song -- The cow -- Happy thought -- The wind -- Keepsake Mill -- Good and bad children -- Foreign children -- The Sun's travels -- The lamplighter -- My bed is a boat -- The Moon -- The swing -- Time to rise -- Looking-glass river -- Fairy bread -- From a railway carriage -- Winter-time -- The hayloft -- Farewell to the farm -- North-West Passage: 1. Good night ; 2. Shadow March ; 3. In port -- The child alone: The unseen playmate -- My ship and I -- My kingdom -- Picture-books in winter -- My treasures -- Block city -- The land of story-books -- Armies in the fire -- The little land -- Garden days: Night and day -- Nest eggs -- The flowers -- Summer sun -- The dumb soldier -- Autumn fires -- The gardener -- Historical associations -- Envoys: To Willie and Henrietta -- To my mother -- To auntie -- To Minnie -- To my name-child -- To any reader
N2  - A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood. It is one of the best-loved classic poetry collections ever written and is illustrated here by the world-famous artist Michael Foreman in a beautiful new gift edition, with a foreword by Alexander McCall Smith
ER  -