A Child's Garden of Verses
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Average rating4.5
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Ratings7
Average rating4.5
A collection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson and others which reflect the joys of childhood, accompanied by Bible verses.
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Delight and innocence of childhood (as the description says) is very accurate for this book.
There is one poem that's shockingly racist, but it was the only one.
A 1001 CBYMRBYGU.
I'm obligated to read all of Stevenson's oeuvre. My school is named after this man.
This book contains a variety of short poems for children written by RLS himself. The poems range from the proscriptive:
“A child should always say what's true
And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave mannerly at table;
At least as far as he is able.”
To:
“The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
