Nesbit: The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Hardcover)

from debnance

As a child, I loved books with magic. I was often disappointed to discover that books with wonderful magical titles and wonderful magical covers had nothing magical in them. This book sounded like it would be magical. It was not, but I liked it anyway. A family of children hope to restore their f...

from Eurekas

The six Bastable children are a joy in this book. Oswald is the narrator, although there is an attempt to keep that a secret. What is surprising about it is the age of the book. It was published in 1899. It is over a hundred years old. Charles Dickens had written realistic accounts of children as...

from electrascaife

Six brothers and sisters decide to look for treasure - in their London home and nearby - when their widowed father's business falls on hard times. A nice-enough story, although it does teeter on the edge of trite, and there are times that Nesbit seems a little too pleased with the cleverness of h...

from ashleytylerjohn

I thought it was charming, but slight ... but charming enough to smush it into a 4 star category over 3 star. Loved the touch of how the author claimed they would keep a secret who was narrating the story--I can imagine kids reading it and being a bit stymied, but at 51 I was fairly certain I'd f...

from St.CroixSue

This is a classic British children's book written by the Nesbit, who was a key influence of C.S. Lewis in writing the Chronicles of Narnia among others. It is a story of six siblings from a family who are regularly left to their own devices who face perils with humor and pluck as they attempt to ...