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A Child's Garden of Verses
(Suite for Band)
Concert Band • Grade 3

I. Butterfly's Ball
II. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
III. Summer Sun

based on poetry by William Roscoe (1753—1831), Eugene Field (1850—1895),
and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894)

This work in three movements was commissioned by my dear friend Tom Thomas, director of bands at Mason County Central High School in Scottville, Michigan. Each movement is based on a poem from A Child's Garden of Verses, which was a childhood favorite for Tom and his brother. (view recommended reading)