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A Child’s Garden of Verses

A Child’s Garden of Verses (Wordsworth Children’s Classics) (Paperback) – First published in 1885, Stevenson’s marvellous collection of children’s poetry has never gone out of print, and remains near the top of numerous “best book’s for childen” lists. For example, Maurice Sendak, when asked to list books that he thought every child should have the opportunity to read, named this collection first. Harold Bloom, renowned literary critic (he has received more major awards from his peers than any other) and author of the thought-provoking and controversial “The Western Canon”, included ACGoV in the list he furnished in response to an interviewer’s request for a “Western Canon, Jr”. Continue reading A Child’s Garden of Verses (Wordsworth Children’s Classics) (Paperback)