The Story of the Treasure Seekers

by E. Nesbit, Julia Donaldson

Overview

A legendary children's story of sibling adventure, by the enchanting author of The Railway Children and Five Children and It, which has delighted countless generations of children

The Bastable children (Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius—H.O.) live in London with their widowed father. Too poor to attend school, the children are left to their own devices, and they spend their days coming up with ingenious plans to restore their father's fortune. Told from the first person perspective—which lends the narrative substantial bias—this was Nesbit's first work. Refreshingly free of Victorian sentimentality, yet still wonderfully evocative of a bygone era, the tale makes for timeless reading. amd ensures Nesbit's esteemed place in the canon of children's literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780942360
Publisher:	Hesperus Press
Publication date:	04/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	422 KB
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

E. Nesbit (1858–1924) was a prolific children's author, writing more than 60 books including Five Children and It and The Railway Children. Julia Donaldson has written such stories as the Smarties Prize-winning The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, Spinderella, The Giants and the Joneses, and Night Monkey, Day Monkey.

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

"Her child characters were remarkable in her day because they are so entirely human. They are intelligent, vain, aggressive, humorous, witty, cruel, compassionate . . . in fact, they are like adults." —Gore Vidal


"E. Nesbit remembered exactly what it felt like to be a child." —Jacqueline Wilson, author, Girls in Love

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