Product Description

When their father's business fails, the six Bastable children decide to restore the family fortunes. But although they think of many ingenious ways to do so, their well meant efforts are either more fun than profitable, or lead to trouble...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36496 in Books
• Published on: 1995-02-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

About the Author
EDITH NESBIT was a mischievous child who grew up into an unconventional adult. With her husband, Hubert Bland, she was one of the founder members of the socialist Fabian Society; their household became a centre of the socialist and literary circles of the times. E. Nesbit turned late to children's writing. Her first children's book, THE TREASURE SEEKERS, was published in 1899 to great acclaim. Other books featuring the Bastable children followed, and a series of magical fantasy books, including FIVE CHILDREN AND IT also became very popular. THE RAILWAY CHILDREN was first published monthly in the LONDON MAGAZINE in 1905, and published as a book in 1906 and has been in print ever since.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant!
This magnificent classic story, by E Nesbit, about the incorrigible Bastable children and their dog Pincher has been a favourite for both children and adults over the years. Their wild and wonderful attempts to retrieve their own family fortunes will have everyone enthralled in this book. `The Treasure Seekers' is a fabulous book which I really enjoyed reading. I would strongly recommend it to everyone who likes adventures about lonely children and normally there is a dog involved.

You might recognise E Nesbit from `The Amulet', `The Railway Children', `The Five Children and It' or some others. Generations have taken pleasure in reading them and they will be classics forever, if not decades to come.

one of the funniest children's novels ever
You need to be at least nine to get the most out of this peerless story of how an impoverished family, their widowed father on the verge of a nervous breakdown, restores the family fortune. Told with guileless pomposity and the robust yet kindly optimism of a real child (whose identity is supposed to remain a secret)it charts their adventures as they dig for treasure, write appalling poetry and even meet a real princess in Greenwich Park. Their misadventures, scrapes, occasional acts of thoughtlessness and good-hearted courage are all utterly believeable and very very funny. There is also a very good abridged audio version from Naxos.

An excellent book
.... I enjoyed reading 'The Treasure Seekers' by E. Nesbit very much. I recommend this book to any child my age interested in adventure stories. It's sometimes funny and sometimes sad. But, most of all it makes you think about the right and wrong ways of having fun while looking for treasure!