Robert Louis Stevenson, Author Putnam Publishing Group $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-14315-1
It's fitting that the promising debut from a descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson concerns a sunken treasure--in this case, a billion dollars in gold in the decaying hull of a cruiser torpedoed in 1918 off the coast of Rhode Island. The pirate of...
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Author, Daniel Kirk, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-86964-8
Kirk (Moondogs) creates a compelling contemporary setting for a poem from Stevenson's classic A Child's Garden of Verses. and the results are felicitous all around. Kirk pictures a boy on a rainy day, who answers the question ""What are you able to...
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Author, Ted Rand, Illustrator Putnam Publishing Group $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-399-22216-0
Rand leads the reader through a joyful parade of children from all over the world in his rendition of the poem about a child playing with his shadow. A Chinese youngster plays kickball in front of a stone lion, a boy balances on the edge of a...
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Robert Louis Stevenson, read by Martin Jarvis, Blackstone Audio, unabridged, three CDs, 3 hrs., $19.95 ISBN 978-1-4417-1170-0
Martin Jarvis delivers a gripping reading of Stevenson’s classic. When Gabriel Utteron discovers that the sinister Mr. Hyde has moved into the home of his friend Dr. Jekyll and stands to benefit from his will, he becomes concerned and enlists the...
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Author, Chronicle Books, Author, Cooper Edens, Illustrator Chronicle Books $6.99 (20p) ISBN 978-0-8118-4168-9
A plethora of poetry books arrive just in time for National Poetry Month. Now available in a board book edition, A Child's Garden of Verses, compiled by Cooper Edens, pairs eight of Robert Louis Stevenson's poems with turn-of-the-century ...
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Author, Barry Menikoff, Editor, Barry Menikoff, Adapted by Northwestern University Press $44.95 (396p) ISBN 978-0-8101-1059-5
A selection of Stevenson's short fiction highlights his keen imagination, stylistic inventiveness and wide range of interests. (Nov.)
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Author, Brian Wildsmith, Illustrator Oxford University Press, USA $14.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-19-276065-4
This compendium of information ""for, by and about young people'' features chapters on sports celebrities, health, games, clubs, history, law and science. (9-up)
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Author, N. C. Wyeth, Illustrator, Timothy Meis, Abridged by Atheneum Books $19.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-689-85468-2
The Scribner Storybook Classic line adds Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, abridged by Timothy Meis, with vintage illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. Young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map and follows it to South America, only to wind up in the
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Author, Ashley Wolff, Author, Ashley Wolff, Illustrator Dutton Books $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-44399-5
Wolff, creator of such visually arresting books as A Year of Beasts , illustrates a favorite poem from A Child's Garden of Verses. In her now familiar combination of strong black, block-printed line juxtaposed with vibrant watercolor, she explores...
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Author, Ashley Wolff, Author, Ashley Wolff, Illustrator Puffin Books $4.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-14-054551-7
Wolf's trademark vividly colored, crisply outlined paintings breathe new life into the classic poem about a youngster who constructs an imaginary ``town by the sea.'' Ages 3-7. (Nov.)
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Author, Max Grover, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-201711-8
Four poems, culled from Stevenson's 1885 A Child's Garden of Verses, comprise this violently colorful yet dreary volume. Although Stevenson's rhymes are superficially about playing, Grover (Max's Wacky Taxi Day) channels the bedridden Scottish poet's
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Author, Joanna Isles, Illustrator ABRAMS $17.95 (85p) ISBN 978-0-8109-3196-1
Rendered in brilliant candy-shop colors, Joanna Isles's folk-art designs, whimsical characters and striking typestyles put a beguiling face on a beloved work: Abrams's edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses glows with charm...
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Author, Jacqueline Mair, Illustrator Clarion Books $16.95 (60p) ISBN 978-0-395-72101-8
In the later years of his life, the Scottish-born Stevenson and his American wife moved to Samoa, where this tale was originally published, in Samoan, in 1891. Offering an engrossing spin on a time-honored theme-the risky business of making a pact...
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Author, Clare Littlejohn, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-694-00192-7
While neither Robert Louis Stevenson nor Edward Lear could have foreseen their poems as pop-ups, the form is not without advantages. The Owl and the Pussycat is best served here, with Littlejohn's realistic twosome rowing out to sea and later...
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Nicola Baxter, Editor, Robert Louis Stevenson, Author, Lewis Carroll, Author Smithmark Publishers $9.98 (96p) ISBN 978-0-7651-9745-0
the poetry shelf Two new poetry anthologies present poetry as a key to unlocking the imagination. Charles Sullivan collects over 80 poems for Imaginary Animals: Poetry and Art for Young People. A companion to Imaginary Architecture, the entertaining
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Author, David Chauvel, Adapted by, Fred Simon, Adapted by . NBM/Papercutz $17.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59707-185-7
The classic pirate novel is even more fun to read accompanied by well-done pictures. By capturing the feel of another time and place, readers are easily transported into the long-ago seafaring adventure. The art also helps readers become more...
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Author, Tim Gregory, Read by , read by Tim Gregory. Springwater $25.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59-859570-3
Tim Gregory captures the essence of this classic coming-of-age tale featuring villainous buccaneers, buried treasure, murder, treachery and adventure on the high seas. We follow the exploits of young Jim Hawkins along his voyage for treasure aboard...
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Robert Louis Stevenson, Author, John Lawrence, Illustrator , illus. by John Lawrence Candlewick $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7636-4445-1
Stevenson’s prototypical swashbuckling story receives a traditional treatment in this unabridged, oversize version. Lawrence evokes the essence of classic adventure stories with his vinyl-cut illustrations, as thick black shapes are tempered...
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Robert Louis Stevenson, read by Roy McMillan. Naxos AudioBooks, unabridged, three CDs, 3.5 hrs., $22.98 ISBN 978-1-84379-445-5
The inclusion of the obscure Stevenson short story, “Markheim,” distinguishes this excellent audio version of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from many previous recordings. Roy McMillan is more than up to the formidable task of sketching
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Robert Louis Stevenson, read by David Rintoul. Naxos Audiobooks, , unabridged, 7 CDs, 8 hrs., $47.98 ISBN 978-1-84379-957-3
In 1751, after the untimely deaths of his parents, Scotsman David Balfour, the 17-year-old protagonist and narrator of Stevenson’s classic adventure yarn, travels to his father’s childhood home to meet with his uncle, Ebenezer. Instead of a warm...
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Robert Louis Stevenson, illus. by Robert Hunter. Flying Eye (Consortium, dist.), $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-911171-04-1
In his first book for children, British illustrator Hunter brings substantial depth and poignancy to Stevenson’s 1885 poem. A white, shaggy-haired boy sits glumly at the kitchen table as the poem opens (“From breakfast on through all the day/ At...
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Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Leslie S. Klinger. Mysterious, $39.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61316-321-4
In this attractive volume, Edgar winner Klinger (The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes) employs his usual diligent research and thoughtful analysis to deepen appreciation of a genre classic. As Klinger notes in his foreword, Stevenson’s novella, “like...
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