A Child's Garden of Verses

I still have my original book. In sad shape is an understatement. I bought a new one for my expected baby grand-nephew.I loved this book of poems as a child, so I thought my niece could begin reading it to him now. Thanks for having the exact book with the same illustrations.

I gave this keepsake to my granddaughter for her birthday. It is a treasure.

These are the "songs" my heart remembers 70 years later!

I LoveloveLOVE this book. I read it and it was read to me and now I read it to a new generation. My only sadness is that I couldn’t find a volume with the original illustrations.This was a gift to a friend with small children

I love the illustrations. The paper is super thin though and in my opinion it will be difficult if read and show illustrations to a child.

Amazon seems to have grouped the reviews for several editions of A Child's Garden of Verses together, so it's difficult to tell what exactly is being reviewed. I am commenting specifically on Tasha Tudor's lovely illustrations of childhood life, so beautifully paired with Robert Louis Stevenson's poetry of childhood. Together, image and word are a perfect match, and this is a marvelous edition. I highly recommend it as a gift for any new parent, a special child, or for yourself.I live with my grandfather, who was born in 1922 and grew up having these poems read to him and then reading them for himself; when he grew up and had children of his own, he read from this book. They were a little bit "old-fashioned" when my grandfather was a boy in the 1920s, but not at all "dated" in the way some of them have become. I am thinking here of "Foreign Children," with its refrain:Little Indian, Sioux or Crow,Little frosty Eskimo,Little Turk or Japanee,O! don't you wish that you were me?There are others in a similar vein, and while I am sure that some will object, I find all of these poems to be utterly lacking in malice or cruelty. They espouse the ideology of their time, and that was one of Empire. If you don't want to read the few of these poems that mention race/ethnicity in a way that you don't like, then don't -- or better yet, how about using it as a teachable moment to discuss the ways in which views evolve over time?The majority of these poems feel timeless, in that they dwell in the land of childhood imagination. Just reading "The Land of Counterpane" sends me right back to the world of childhood and the hours and hours spent dreaming, creating, imagining. Likewise, "The Land of Nod." I know my grandfather feels just the same way, because sometimes when I tuck him in for bed at night we discuss where we plan to travel in our dreams: the Land of Counterpane or the Land of Nod. Very few things are capable of staying with a person for 80 + years; these poems are some of them.If you have children, or know any children you particularly like, I hope you will purchase a copy of this lovely book for them. It's one of those books that opens a door into another world, and what the child chooses to do once there is up to him or her -- but you can give the key to the door.

I have always loved this book. I had it as a child and have given it as a gift at 2 baby showers .8

Simple verses that a child would enjoy because of the rhymes. There is mature vocabulary that even I didn't know. But the artwork is endearing and I love Robert Louis Stevenson.

Chegou o produto depois de um tempão, foi bem caro e veio machucado.

Tasha Tudor's illustrations are beautiful, they sing the tune of the poems. The poems are written on the illustrated page itself, and looks as if poems are framed in the illustrations. A very different experience of illustrations.A nice collection to have for the illustrated versions of A Child's Garden of Verses...a memoir of childhood. It has all the poems as in the original book. The book is of large size and page quality is superb.This review is for hardback edition of Tasha Tudor illustrated A Child's Garden of Verses published by Simon & Schuster (ISBN-13: 978-0689823824)

Un enchantement que j'ai pris plaisir à lire à mes enfants. Les illustrations sont sublimes et flotte comme une ambiance désuète.

ターシャ・チュウダの画いた色使いが豊かな感情を湧き上がらせてくれた。

It was a short book with poems, day to day life things are been added to the poem. It was good.