Publisher's Synopsis
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-A Child's Garden of Verses ... by Robert Louis Stevenson.It is a collection of children's poetry by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The first chapter appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, it has been extensively reissued and often in illustrated versions. It contained 65 poems such as "Foreign Children," "The Land of Counterpane," "Bed in Summer," "My Shadow" and "The Swing."Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (Edinburgh, Scotland, November 13, 1850-Vailima, near Apia, Samoa, December 3, 1894) was a British novelist, poet, and essayist. His legacy is a vast work that includes travel chronicles, historical and adventure novels, as well as lyrics and essays. He is mainly known for being the author of some of the most classic adventure and fantasy stories in youth literature, such as Treasure Island, the adventure novel Kidnapped, the historical novel The Black Arrow and the popular horror novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, dedicated to the subject of split personality phenomena and which can be classified as a psychological horror novel. Several of his novels continue to be very famous, and some of them have been taken to 20th century cinema several times, partly adapted for children. His essay work, brief but decisive in what refers to the structure of the modern novel of adventures, was also important.
