Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 160
Publisher: Everyman
Language: English
Date Published: 1992-10-29
Dimensions: 160 x 210 x 16mm
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
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Illustrations: b&w illustrations, 2-colour endpapers, bookplate

Stevenson's gift as an author and poet for children lay partly in his lack of condescension towards them, and he preserved a large element of the child in his own personality. He wrote many of these poems whilst ill in bed, and the illustrations were first published shortly after his death.