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3 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

Books on Tape, Inc., 1986

Love, life and the perfume of UK under Gladstone
[submitted on behalf of G. Franco Mattioli, Milan] If you have some heart problems, it is better to avoid this book. You might have the same reactions that Rudyard Kipling had on this reading: laugh and fast heart-beating. Practically it is impossible to touch this subject without been absorbed through the mirror as Alice and in the same time to be happy to be different. Morris ...

Master of Ballantrae

5 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

Airmont Pub Co, 1964

Quite simply the best book I have ever read
I have always liked everything written by Stevenson, but The Master of Ballantrae far outstrips everything else. It is a subtle insight into human nature, and a great adventure story as well. The episodes are majestic, and the story, though bleak, is very touching. I have read it many, many times and think more of it the more I read it (to paraphrase Mackellar on page 1).

Child's Garden of Verses, A

6 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

Golden Books, 1999

A True Treasure found
Imagine my happiness when I found a copy of the book that night after night my mother had read to me as a child in the late 50s and early 60s - My copy had long fallen apart but this was the correct edition and as I opened the pages the illustrations welcomed me like old friends. I got the flu and my husband kindly read the entire book to me and then next time my Mom came to visit I read a few to ...

A Child's Garden of Verses

29 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1999

A Child's Garden of Verses
I received this book from a friend at Christmas when I was a child. I always loved it. I sent a copy to my great granddaughters 8th birthday last year with a couple of other story books and she said she loved all of them.

Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

3 reviews
Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, ...

Signet Classics, 1978

TO DIE FOR!
Three classics books, three classic monsters, and three classic stories that have been told and retold time and time again, all here in one great book! I'm sure you Horror Film fans like me have seen the Boris Karloff Frankenstein, the Bela Lugosi Dracula, and the Fredric March Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but if you haven't read the original novels...YOU AIN'T SEEN OR READ NOTHING YET! Buy this ...

A Child's Garden of Verses

4 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

Sterling, 2007

My Favorite Edition!
This edition was a favorite of my sister and I when we were kids. RLS's poems are delightful, but Ms. Fujikawa's watercolor illustrations add such charm and lush detail... and she perfectly captured the multicultural children. I am now the family keeper of our well-worn treasure. This is the most delightfully illustrated version (in my opinion better even than the wonderful Tasha Tudor's).

Leaves from a Child's Garden of Verses

3 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

Smithmark Publishers, 1993

Bouncing with delight
I've developed the habit of giving children's books at baby showers. I try to give a mix of rhyme, fairy tales and story books. I especially like to find books both parents and children will long treasure. The first time I found this book, I adored it so much it was hard to part with it. The illustrations are almost breath-takingly beautiful. I've given it away twice now but feared I might ...

Robert Louis Stevenson

4 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

Peerage Books, 1991

A Great Book for Children
As an elementary school teacher, I found "Poetry for Young People" by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Lucy Corvino, a wonderful book. It's a great way to introduce poetry to children because the poems are short and easy to understand. The illustrations have magnificently detailed illustrations without being overly complex or confusing. The children are drawn to the pictures, which ...

Prayers Written at Vailima and A Lowden Sabbath Morn

3 reviews

Neeland Media LLC, 2004

With twenty-one original linoleum-cut illustrations
Prayers Written At Vailima is a collection of the daily prayers written by the famous English novelist Robert Louis Stevenson for his family and their Samoan neighbors during his time in the south seas. Also included is an introduction by his wife about their life on the island of Samoa and twenty-one original linoleum-cut illustrations designed with a Polynesian feel buy Catherine Kanner. For ...

Treasure Island

3 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

Palazzo Editions, 2006

Beautiful
I have a copy of this as well as the one with Wyeth illustrations. I prefer this for the kids as there are more illustrations throughout the book, it is a bit larger and pages printed to give a parchment look. The quality of the illustrations is outstanding. This is a beautiful book.

The Beach of Falesa

2 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

Wildside Press, 2004

Stunningly brilliant portrail of Island Life & Prejudice.
Probably Robert Luis Stevenson's most brillient work. A sensitive probeing of race relations in a turn of the century setting involving an English Trader and a beautiful island girl. An interesting story, a sensitive love story and an exploration of what is best and what is worst in humanity. This piercing examination is as important today as when Stevenson wrote it. One can easily understand ...

Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson

2 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

Yale University Press, 2001

Henry James enjoyed hearing from RLS and so will you.
Some of the best writers of his time--Henry James, for one--looked forward eagerly to getting letters from Stevenson, as he traveled around the world, looking for a place that might improve his health. (From boyhood on, he suffered from severe lung problems.) Dip into this book at random, and you'll see why. Stevenson put himself into his letters unreservedly--there's a confidential tone of ...

Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure (Dover Thrift Editions)

2 reviews
Walt Whitman, George 'Lord Byron' Gordon, ...

Dover Publications, 1998

Best book value I know.
It's hard to believe how many of the best poems in English are in this thin little book -- ninety poems for a dollar. I second the action of the Poetry Project in giving it free to lots of people. Buy one for your glove compartment, your office, your study, and your best reader friend!

Block City

2 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

Macmillan Children's Books, 1990

A Magical Book for Kids of All Ages!
I love this book! By using Stevenson's poem, Ashley Wolff captures the magical moments of childhood in a way that will bring a rush of memories to adults, and instant recognition to children. Staying in bed with the flu or a cold, most children devise imaginary games to occupy their time. Future quiltmakers, carpenters and other folks, will recognize themselves in this book. A delightful ...

Dog Overboard! (Adventures of Wishbone, No 12)

2 reviews
Vivian Sathre, Olga Litowinsky, ...

Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2000

Ye will love this book!
This book is great. Aside from the fact that there's a cute little dog in every page, the book teaches a very important moral. If you sit down just for five minutes with this book, you'll never put it down until you're finished with it! Wishbone is great!

The Moon

2 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2006

An illustrator's wonderful interpretation of a classic poem; a joy to read and view.
This is truly a wonderful book. It is short, sweet, and simple. At least that is the way it felt as I read it and looked at the pictures. The text is a classic poem by Robert Louis Stevenson who lived between 1850 and 1894. And the watercolor illustrations marvelously bring the poem to life so the reader can better understand it. There are 15 scenes (2-pages each) in the book. The story is ...

In the South Seas

2 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

BiblioBazaar, 2006

In the South Seas
In his book, In the South Seas, Stevenson gives an accurate and in depth look into the people and culture of the islands of the South Pacific. The book describes Stevenson's two year journey from the Marqueses Islands, to Tahiti, then Honolulu ,and finally Somoa. Stevenson uses the great adventures he experienced and his masterfully writing skills to paint a breath taking view of the islands and ...

A Child's Garden of Verses

2 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

Simon and Schuster, 1999

To Cherish and Treasure
I cried when I saw this book again. It had been a friend -albeit long-lost- for a long long time. I had the orginal 1957 Little Golden Book until that horrible Garage Sale that Mom had while I was away at college! Darn I miss that Chatty Cathy doll. But not even an iota as much as I miss my Mama. This is a wonderful and wondrous little book - Eloise Wilkin's pictures will stay with you and ...

Graphic Classics Volume 9: Robert Louis Stevenson (Graphic Classics (Graphic Novels))

2 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson, Mort Castle, ...

Eureka Productions, 2004

All the old romance, retold
"Treasure Island" is probably the first thing that springs to mind from hearing the name Robert Louis Stevenson. "Kidnapped," "Black Arrow" and other classic tales of high adventure sprung from his pen, leading more than one child to desperately wish for a one-eyed Pirate to stroll into his life. But like his other famous creation, Dr. Jekyll, Stevenson had his darker face, and some tales not ...

The Dynamiter

2 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

Wildside Press, 2007

A superb book! Mysterious, illuminating, entertaining
Minsoo Kang's stories are wonderful, contemplative and alluring tales and I highly recommend this book -- which looks on the surface to be in the fantasy/science fiction category -- to anybody who likes intelligent fiction. Kang has a raconteur's gusto for telling a good tale and is also a historian, disciplined and dedicated to ferreting meaning out of past events. As a result his is a book of ...

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