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Title: A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, Diane Goode ISBN: 0688145841 Publisher: Morrow Junior Pub. Date: 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25
Rating: 5
Summary: A beautiful melding of words and pictures
Comment: Most everyone knows that Robert Louis Stevenson was sickly, both as a child and as an adult, and the happy result for the reading public was his nearly feverish flights of imagination. Here, in an edition of his classic "A Child's Garden of Verses," that fever is complemented in spades by the fantastical illustrations of English artist Joanna Isles.
Isles uses an arsenal of utterly frivolous flowers, borders, insects, birds, kings and queens, fairies, and more to expand upon the imagination exhibited in Stevenson's poems. The children in these pictures are depicted as being in charge, being at one with their environment, and being delighted to be alive.
Some of the illustrations hint at the influence of artists more famed than Isles (Henri Rousseau appears to be a special favorite of hers--see the illustration for "The Unseen Playmate," in which a boy lies down in weeds that might have sprung from the edge of Rousseau's painting "The Dream"). Using both primary colors and pastels, Isles creates a world within the world of Stevenson's verse. The marriage of the two is a happy one.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Child's Garden: Sothing words for a child
Comment: When I was younger, well 5 actually, I had the chicken pox. This was one of my mom's favorite books. The words in the poetry just soothed me. It seemed like the author, Robert Louis Stevenson, knew exactly what I was going through.
You can't forget about the little toy soldiers (a poem) at your feet because when you are sick for days, you can imagine all kinds of things in your mind. The curtains billow like sails, the bedpost is your anchor. I sat there in bed and just floated away with the fun of having someone to share my illness. It seemed like a had a friend right there with me.
I loved the pictures too. The little kids are old fashioned and it made me laugh because the boys wore silly clothes, but they fit the time period, my mom said.
I love this book and keep it by my bed when I need to be relaxed.
Hayley Cohen
Rating: 3
Summary: A Portable, Usable 'Child's Garden of Verses'
Comment: Everyone knows Robert Louis Stevenson; everyone has at least one of the myriad books of his poetry. There are some stunningly illustrated collections of his poetry out now, notably two by Thomas Kincaide, among others. But how many of us have actually read all or most of his work? I'm guilty as charged.
This smaller, quieter version of Stevenson's poetry helped me finally, actually read all the Garden poetry. True, the illustrations are spare, but delightfully accurate. My children (7 and 10) were not as mesmerized by this book as they are by others with fanciful graphics, illustrations and larger type to accompany the poetry.
Still, this small book found its way into my purse to be used for waiting moments, e.g. at the orthodontist, doctor, and also to my bedside, where it's shear diminutive size did not dissuade me from reading "for only a minute or two." And within Stevenson's words and language lie the ferment of creative pictures. I liked to have my children close their eyes while I read short poems to 'force' them to use only their mind's eye.
I thoroughly enjoyed the adventures, moods, and images Stevenson conjures and at long last can understand why his poetry remains so classic.
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Title: Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) by Walter Jerrold, Charles Robinson ISBN: 0679428151 Publisher: Everymans Library Pub. Date: 1993 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: A Book of Nonsense (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) by Edward Lear ISBN: 0679417982 Publisher: Everymans Library Pub. Date: 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Favorite Poems of Childhood (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) by Philip Smith, Harriet Golden ISBN: 0486270890 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 1992 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: English Fairy Tales (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) by Joseph Jacobs, John Batten ISBN: 0679428097 Publisher: Everymans Library Pub. Date: 1993 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, Barry Moser ISBN: 0688139574 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 1996 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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