A Child's Garden of Verses
Stevenson
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Stevenson · 24 chapters
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- Literary English
- Everyday expressions
- Advanced vocabulary
- Long sentence structures
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In these "Verses" he writes as a child rather than about children, and in this lies much of the charm which they possess for little readers.
Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will.
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- A CHILD'S GARDEN of VERSESSample
- BED IN SUMMER
- YOUNG NIGHT THOUGHT
- MY SHADOW
- At the Seaside.
- PIRATE STORY
- FOREIGN LANDS
- SYSTEM
- A GOOD PLAY
- THE LAND OF COUNTERPANE
- A GOOD BOY
- The Swing
- MARCHING SONG
- TRAVEL
- WHERE GO THE BOATS?
- ESCAPE AT BEDTIME
- From A RAILWAY CARRIAGE
- THE WIND
- MY BED IS A BOAT
- THE LAND OF NOD
- FAIRY BREAD
- KEEPSAKE MILL
- LOOKING-GLASS RIVER
- The SUN'S TRAVELS
- THE LAMPLIGHTER
- FOREIGN CHILDREN
- THE MOON
- THE HAYLOFT
- FAREWELL TO THE FARM
- SINGING
- NORTH-WEST PASSAGE GOOD NIGHT
- II. SHADOW MARCH
- III. IN PORT
- GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION
- A WORD LIST