This British writer was a sickly child, often confined to his nursery, where he imagined swashbuckling tales of pirates and treasure. Many of his poems in A Child's Garden of Verses, 1885, have become classics. This is Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped, and poems such as "I have a little shadow who goes in and out with me, and what can be the use of him is more than I can see," and "How do you like to go up in a swing, up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing ever a child can do."
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