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A Child’s Garden of Verses

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Author(s):Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):None
Publisher(s): Longmans, Green & Co.
Year Published: 1885
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Poetry - Ballads
Poetry - Humorous
Poetry - Lyric
Poetry - Miscellaneous
Age Range: Ages 0-5: Picture Books
Pages: 101
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 504695939

Description

‘In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.’

And sixty-three other well-known poems. Read online at archive.org.

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Other Editions

A Child’s Garden of Verses (1895)

‘In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.’

and twenty-three other well-known poems. Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
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A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

‘In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.’

And sixty-three other well-known poems. Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
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A Child’s Garden of Verses (1978)

‘In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.’

and twenty-three other well-known poems.

Read online at archive.org. 

Publisher: Random House
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The Land of Nod (1988)

‘In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.’

and twenty-nine other familiar poems.

Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
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Recommended Books

Day and Night Songs; and The Music Master. A Love Poem (1860)

This collection includes “The Faeries” which was illustrated to great effect by Richard Doyle. The cover image is from an 1884 reprint by G. Philip & Son. The text below is from the 1860 edition. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Publisher: Bell and Daldy
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Freddy and the Ignormus (1941)

No one has ever seen it, but everyone knows and fears the Ignormus living in the big woods. When things start to go missing from the Bean farm, Freddy finds the trail leads to an abandoned house - and the Ignormus.

Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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