A Child's Garden of Verses 

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 

Illustrator: Tasha Tudor 

Genre: Poetry

Grade level: K-5

This book is a collection of poetry for children. It is about darkness and solitude. The poem's are put into a kid friendly manor to teach them about the realities of life and sadness. Some poems are rhyming poems and some are not. This poems are written in the perspective of children and really relate to children and the innocence of what it's like to be a child

I could use this in the classroom during a poetry unit. I can also use this to help children relate to poems. A lot of the time poems can be hard to understand and pretty un-relatable to a small child. These poems can be used to relate to them on a personable level.

The illustrations are very beautiful. They are whimsical like and really add a lot to the poems. They capture the essence of how great it is to be a child.