A Child's Garden of Verses is an 1885 volume of 64 poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.

It has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions, and is considered to be one of the most influential children's works of the 19th century.

[2] The poems, which have been widely imitated, are written from the point of view of a child.

Stevenson dedicated the collection to his childhood nurse, Alison Cunningham.

[2] Inspired by a children's book of 1880, the collection was originally to be called Penny Whistles[2] but was ultimately published by Longmans, Green, & Co in 1885 as A Child's Garden of Verses.