The sixty-four poems in A Child's Garden of Verses are a masterfully evocation expression of childhood from the pen of the author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped. They are full of delightful irony, wit and the fantasy worlds of childhood imagination, and introduce for the first time the fanciful Land of Nod. But they are also touched with a genuine and gentle pathos at times as they recall a world which seems so far away from us now.
