I don't remember when I first discovered author Edith Nesbit, but I do remember being surprised at how much I enjoyed her writing. At the time, I considered 'classics' to be slow and dull reading - good for teaching but not for enjoyment. But there's a very good reason that these books are still around and keep getting reprinted - they are just plain good stories!

This is the story of the Bastable children - Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius (H. O.) Bastable. Their mother has died recently and their father's business has failed. Their father, despite his profound sadness at the loss of his wife, is determined to do the best he can for his children and to keep their spirits up. But the children recognize that their father has fallen on hard times and decide that they should help father by making some money. Of course, their interest is sincere but they approach this the way almost any child would ... looking for ways to make good money, quickly.

With childhood aplomb the Bastable children decide that publishing a newspaper must be lucrative and so take on the task of publishing their own paper with each of the children responsible for writing a section of the paper. But with hours of work they don't manage to sell too many papers and so they move on to another means to raise some money for their father.

This book really captures the sense of childhood innocence and ingenuity. Reading it today we see that people, children, haven't changed much in the past century.

Do your children a favor and pick up this reprint and read a chapter a night to them as they go to bed.

Looking for a good book? The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit is a classic children's book that still deserves to be read to children and should be on every literate family's bookshelf.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

Humorous and heart warming tale from the late 19th century.. Maybe it needs an updating??? I'm not sure anyone alive today will seriously want to read the book. Well, maybe as a curiosity. I'm a die hard book enthusiast and have read older books with some enjoyment, so maybe there might be some others who will enjoy this story as well. Well, anyone interested in what their great-great-great grandparents may have read when they were children may enjoy this story. It's from such an innocent time.

One of my favourites from childhood and it was lovely to revisit it as an adult and be taken back into that world of family and adventure, so skilfully depicted by Nesbit.

This is a lovely tale of a family of children who try everything they can think of to help their father. After Mother died, the fortunes of the House of Bastable were lost. Now, the children want to help their father to recover their fortunes—could they find a way to do that? The ways in which the children seek for treasure are, at times, pretty funny. I enjoyed reading about all the scrapes they found themselves in. In the end, they tried to help someone else, and ended up with quite surprising results.
The only thing I did not appreciate in this delightful story was the chapter about the children using a divining rod.
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If you're seeking treasure (i.e. a good book) then you'll definitely find it in this classic by E. Nesbit. The book is all about the escapades of the charming Bastable children (there are six of them, and they haven't got a mother). The family is facing hard times, and the children decide it's up to them to help their father restore their family fortune.

This leads to many endearing, yet ill-advised, schemes. The children somehow manage to land on their feet, though, usually with the help of Albert-next-door's uncle. (While Albert-next-door is a little prig, his uncle is a sympathetic champion to the children.)

I love that Nesbit teases us with her narrator's "secret identity" through-out the book. "It is one of us that tells this story – but I shall not tell you which: only at the very end perhaps I will. While the story is going on you may be trying to guess, only I bet you don't." What an enticing challenge! 

Pick this book up and read it aloud to your child. The language is definitely a little old-fashioned. (It was originally published in 1899! But Nesbit's storytelling is top-notch... better than many of our contemporary authors. I didn't read this book as a kid, and although I wish I had, I found the story thoroughly enjoyable from an adult's perspective. This is one of those books you'll want to keep coming back to.

I loved E Nesbit as a child in the Seventies and having read this to my children this week and wept with laughter, the appeal remains undimmed. They loved it as much as me. Despite the fact that this was written in 1899, it remains fresh, eerily modern in tone and compulsively readable. The characters are so good and the scrapes they get into are so funny that it is deservedly a classic. It's glorious.

This tale is written for young readers. It's full of silly stories where the children's big ideas backfire on them. It's written well and you even laugh as you see how they carry out their goals.

Dover Publications and Net Galley allowed me to read this book for review (thank you). It is being published today.

Their mother has died, their father is having a hard time earning enough money to keep them in their home and they are trying to come up with ways to make money. After all, father sold their silverware and other things from the house already and their allowances have disappeared. Just what could they do?

They try all sorts of schemes that are hairbrained and silly and they manage to get by without doing any damage. They do get in a bit of trouble.

The ending is great! They feel sorry for their poor Indian uncle, so they give him they money they have left since their last great scheme. That turns their fortune around. You'll need to read the book to see how but it's a fun read. Give it a try.