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Title: A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson ISBN: 0-87701-608-9 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: October, 1989 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (15 reviews)
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.
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: Great gift for young readers
Comment: I remember reading this collection of poems when I was a little kid. My dad bought it for me and we'd read the poems together before I went to bed. Stevenson seemed to have a good understanding of how to talk to a child("Bed in Summer" was a favorite!).
I've given copies of this book to a niece and a friend for her young daughter. It's certainly a book that should be part of any child's library.
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Title: Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes by WALTER JERROLD ISBN: 0679428151 Publisher: Unknown Publisher - Being Researched Pub. Date: 02 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard ISBN: 0525444459 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: A Child's Garden Of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, Tasha Tudor ISBN: 0689823827 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Sing-Song by Christina G. Rossetti ISBN: 0486221075 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1968 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Favorite Poems Old and New by Helen Ferris ISBN: 0385076967 Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 01 September, 1957 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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