"Sing-Song, A Nursery Rhyme Book" by Christina Rossetti
- Themes deal with love, death and parting (The realities of life)
- More tragic and sad than Stevenson's collection
- None of the poems have titles
- The poems follow the cycle of life/day/year and tell the story from start to finish
- Begins and ends with an image of a baby in a cradle
- Illustrations by Arthur Hughes add depth and meaning to the verses and make the reader think more about the words.
- Both collections were published around the same time period (within ten years)
- Pushes didacticism
- Not written from a child's point of view, and adults are present much more in the verses/poems
"A Child's Garden of Verses" by Robert Lois Stevenson
- Themes deal mainly with play, adventure, travel, nature, imagination, fun, and the joys of childhood
- Poems written from a child's point of view, obviously to be read by a child
- The illustrations are rather generic
- Verses are nostalgic and joyous
- Playful
- Works against didacticism, many present an ironic tone about adults
- All the verses have a title
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