A Child's Garden of Verses was among the first poetry written for and about the child's own wonderful world of discovery and imagination—a landmark in the Victorian age, when verse for children was intended to edify and to convey moral instruction in rhyme.

Stevenson had already won renown as a writer of stories when he wrote A Child's Garden of Verses. In these poems he uses his mature talent to evoke anew the thoughts and experience of his own happy childhood.

From the dust jacket of the 1961 Platt & Munk reprint