The Little Land

Elizabeth Fisher is a former elementary-school principal in Toronto, who
spent 10 years as a teacher-librarian.

This book features Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem “The Little
Land,” taken from his collection A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885).
The enchanting poem is about a boy’s imaginary journey to the Land of
Play, where the Little People live. The boy, also a little person, fits
right in. There he becomes a “sailor on the rain-pool sea”—which
is a puddle—sailing on a leaf boat. He plays with bumblebees, makes
new friends, and dances into the night. When he returns home and
everything seems so big, the youngster longs to visit the Land of Play
again.

Stevenson’s imaginative poem is brought to life by Kim Fernandes’s
equally imaginative artwork. Her colorful images are created out of Fimo
(polymer modeling clay), which gives them a textured, three-dimensional
look. Not only are the images attractive to look at, but they will also
inspire budding artists who want to create their own images out of Fimo.
Highly recommended.