A Child's Garden of Verses - Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith

Robert Louis Stevenson, Jessie Willcox Smith

• Publisher: Pook Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473388499
• Print ISBN:
  9781447448952
  9781447449317

A Child's Garden of Verses is a book written by Robert Louis Stevenson – it is here accompanied by the splendid illustrations of Jessie Willcox Smith. Stevenson (1850 – 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, most famous for penning Treasure Island, and the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. His A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry, which first appeared in 1885, under the title of Penny Whistles. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics 'Foreign Children', 'The Lamplighter', 'The Land of Counterpane', 'Bed in Summer', 'My Shadow' and 'The Swing'. Jessie Willcox Smith (1863 – 1935) was one of the most prominent female illustrators in the United States during the Golden Age of American Illustration. She was also a prolific contributor to literary novels and magazines during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most notable was her ongoing relationship with Good Housekeeping, including the long-running 'Mother Goose' series. Smith's style changed drastically through her life. In the beginning of her career she used dark lined borders to delineate brightly coloured objects, and in later works she masterfully softened lines and colours – until they almost disappeared. Presented alongside the text, her illustrations bring further joy to Robert Louis Stevenson's poetry. Pook Press celebrates the great 'Golden Age of Illustration' in children's literature – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage Golden Age illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Half title
• To Alison Cunningham
• Contents
• Illustrations
• I Bed in Summer
• II A Thought
• III At the Sea-side
• IV Young Night-Thought
• V Whole Duty of Children
• VI Rain
• VII Pirate Story
• VIII Foreign Lands
• IX Windy Nights
• X Travel
• XI Singing
• XII Looking Forward
• XIII A Good Play
• XIV Where Go the Boats?
• XV Auntie’s Skirts
• XVI The Land of Counterpane
• XVII The Land of Nod
• XVIII My Shadow
• XIX System
• XX A Good Boy
• XXI Escape at Bedtime
• XXII Marching Song
• XXIII The Cow
• XXIV Happy Thought
• XXV The Wind
• XXVI Keepsake Mill
• XXVII Good and Bad Children
• XXVIII Foreign Children
• XXIX The Sun Travels
• XXX The Lamplighter
• XXXI My Bed is a Boat
• XXXII The Moon
• XXXIII The Swing
• XXXIV Time to Rise
• XXXV Looking-glass River
• XXXVI Fairy Bread
• XXXVII From a Railway Carriage
• XXXVIII Winter-time
• XXXIX The Hayloft
• XL Farewell to the Farm
• XLI North-west Passage
• The Child Alone
• Garden Days
• Envoys