The sixty-four poems in A Child's Garden of Verses are a masterly evocationof childhood from the author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped. They arefull of delightful irony, wit and the fantasy worlds of childhoodimagination, and introduce for the first time the Land of Nod. But they arealso touched with a genuine and gentle pathos at times as they recall aworld which
seems so far away from us now. This edition, which includesCharles Robinson's charming illustrations and vignettes, is described asthe definitive edition by The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature.