A Child's Garden of Verses (Reissue) trauma Her scientist son must turn

Her scientist son must turn his attention from the music of the spheres to the job of defending his mother

Twain and his family spent nine eventful years in exile in Europe

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A Child's Garden of Verses (Reissue) trauma Her scientist son must turnScottish novelist, poet and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson dedicated "A Child's Garden of Verses" to Alison Cunningham, the nurse of his early childhood years in Edinburgh a time whose essence he strove to recapture in the sixty four poems of this long treasured collection. Here, in "The Land of Counterpane" and "The Land of Nod, " and in such delightful lyrics as "My Bed Is a Boat, " "Autumn Fires" and "Windy Nights, " are rhymes and images children