The Story of the Treasure Seekers

by E. Nesbit, Peter Bailey (Illustrator)

Overview

Praised by J.K. Rowling, Jacqueline Wilson and many others, The Story of the Treasure Seekers is the first book in the Bastable trilogy. Alma Junior edition is beautifully illustrated by Peter Bailey and contains extra material for young readers.

Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel and Horace Octavius (“H.O.”) Bastable are desperate to help their widowed father to restore the family's fortunes after his business fails.

Their moneymaking schemes, from digging for treasure in their South-London garden to becoming highwaymen on Blackheath, mainly lead to a good deal of trouble, until one adventure promises to change everything…

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847498427
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	02/23/2021
Series:	Alma Junior Classics
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	4.94(w) x 7.94(h) x 0.61(d)
Age Range:	9 - 11 Years

About the Author

English author and poet Edith Nesbit (1858–1924) is best remembered as E. Nesbit, the name she used for all of her children's books and stories. She achieved fame for Five Children and It, The House of Arden and The Railway Children, which has become one of the most loved classics of English literature.

Table of Contents

	'E. Nesbit and the Bastables'	1
1	The Council of Ways and Means	10
2	Digging for Treasure	21
3	Being Detectives	32
4	Good Hunting	48
5	The Poet and the Editor	59
6	Noel's Princess	69
7	Being Bandits	81
8	Being Editors	94
9	The G.B.	111
10	Lord Tottenham	127
11	Castilian Amoroso	139
12	The Nobleness of Oswald	159
13	The Robber and the Burglar	178
14	The Divining-rod	201
15	'Lo, the Poor Indian!'	214
16	The End of the Treasure-seeking	227

Editorial Reviews

I love E. Nesbit – I think she is great and I identify with the way that she writes. Her children are very real children and she was quite a groundbreaker in her day.” —J.K. Rowling

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