Do you know the title of this book?

I think you are thinking of a poem from Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses.

The Land of Counterpane

From Child's Garden of Verses

When I was sick and lay a-bed,

I had two pillows at my head,

And all my toys beside me lay,

To keep me happy all the day.

And sometimes for an hour or so

I watched my leaden soldiers go,

With different uniforms and drills,

Among the bed-clothes, through the hills;

And sometimes sent my ships in fleets

All up and down among the sheets;

Or brought my trees and houses out,

And planted cities all about.

I was the giant great and still

That sits upon the pillow-hill,

And sees before him, dale and plain,

The pleasant land of counterpane.

Is this it? My mother used to read this to me sixty years ago and you've brought back some pleasant memories. Thanks.

i'm not sure what my widespread is, yet i've got constantly cherished - If i could Killed Him as quickly as I Met Him (Sharyn McCrumb). This identify made me snicker: hi, Lied the Agent: And different Bullsh*t You hear as a Hollywood television author (Ian Gurvitz). right that's a "WHAT!" identify: Reusing previous Graves (Douglas Davies). Taken from Shakespeare's Macbeth, i admire the identify something depraved this way Comes (Ray Bradbury). although so properly everyday now that folk in many situations do no longer think of roughly it, A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) grew to become into truly an exceedingly sensible identify. The which skill of a carol could be "a music of compliment or excitement" so it grew to become right into a play on words. A e book as a music. i admire that. there are a number of titles i admire. case in point, Funerals are deadly (Agatha Christie), the magnitude of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde), Please bypass the Guilt (Rex Stout) and The Haunted guy and the Ghost's good purchase (it truly is a novella, Charles Dickens). I additionally like how James Herriot used the verse from an previous English hymn to call 4 books in his sequence (although the hymn has the 1st 2 lines switched & is observed as All issues mind-blowing and eye-catching): All Creatures great and Small All issues mind-blowing and eye-catching All issues sensible and exquisite our lord god Made all of them.

I remember that poem, and I am certainly not that old.

I LOVED my copy of A Child's Garden of Verses

There were some great poems in that book.

The entire book is available to be read here.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19722/19722-h/19722...

Could it be 'Traffics and Discoveries' by Rudyard Kipling?

It was a collection of short stories... perhaps the story you were thinking of within it was 'The Army of a Dream'?

Here is a link to the e-text - http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/...