Marie Selby Botanical Gardens is pleased to present Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child’s Garden of Verses on view November 15, 2025, through August 30, 2026, at Selby Gardens’ Historic Spanish Point campus, located at 401 North Tamiami Trail, in Osprey. This new exhibition celebrates childhood and the imagination of youth through the words and images of A Child’s Garden of Verses, the beloved book of poetry for children by the celebrated Scottish writer, Robert Louis Stevenson. The exhibition features photographs of pages from a vintage edition of the book, combining Stevenson’s poetry with illustrations by the notable American artist, Alexander Dobkin. Accompanying the photographs are simple interactives that draw their inspiration from Stevenson’s poems and enhance the visitor experience. An audio element enables visitors to hear the poems read by Selby Gardens’ Artist in Residence, Patti Smith.

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