The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Alma Junior Classics)

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A wonderful classic children's book which should be part of the library of every child who loves to read. Not in the least bit stuffy, even if it IS a hundred years old. It's lively and funny and the kids are very real. And the supposed mystery of which of the five children in the story is writing the book--while (deliberately) not very successfully concealed from the reader--is a hilarious device. E. Nesbit was the first person to write real, genuine children's books--no moralizing anywhere. If you never read this book as a child, you missed something magical. Order it now.

I find it odd that a book should be faulted because a reader doesn't understand all the references. For me as a child, puzzling out what phrases like "Let dogs delight" meant was fun -- even when I never did figure it out, or didn't figure it out until years later when I came upon the source. That was fun, too: to be reading something else or traveling in England and suddenly get the reference -- and think "So THAT's what she meant!"But the references are a minor detail.This was one of my favorite books as a child and I now think it is one of the greatest books ever written for children: funny, insightful, well-written, inspiring -- and unexpectedly moving in places, too. I still laugh out loud when I read it, and I still admire the children enormously: for their imaginations, resourcefulness, kindness to each other, loyalty, and, perhaps most of all, for their very English courage -- the way they deal with what drearier people would complain about.Philosophically, I very much object to the idea that everything in a book should be easy to understand and known already to the readers. Surely one of the joys of reading is to be exposed to new ideas, people, places -- to learn?Another great writer for children, PL Travers, the author of MARY POPPINS, writes about the enormous pleasure and stimulation she (as a child) derived from trying to puzzle out the meanings of phrases in adults' conversation, such as "she lived on her capital." (She phrases it better than I do here -- but she as a child imagined this aunt as a sort of ogress, nibbling on her own fingers and toes during an afternoon nap.)It's probably true that E.Nesbit's writing is not for everyone-- but what is? I for one think it's great that children still love her -- and despite all the efforts that have been made to dumb their books and everything else down,that they still enjoy puzzling out (or simply accept and move on from) what they don't understand at a first glance.Many authors -- Noel Streatfield and CS Lewis to name two more - have paid tribute to E.Nesbit. Noel Coward kept copies of her books by her bed. She still makes me laugh out loud, and very few authors from any era can do that.

The Treasure Seekers concerns a family of six children in turn-of-the-century England. Their mother dead and their father impoverished through the malfeasance of his business partner, the Bastable kids try a number of schemes to renew the fortunes of the House of Bastable. The story is charming, but the narrative style will win both children and adults. Oswald, the second-eldest sibling, narrates the tale without holding back on his opinions as to how a story should be told. (Example: "There are some things I must tell before I begin to tell about the treasure-seeking, because I have read books myself, and I know how beastly it is when a story begins 'Alas! said Hildegarde with a deep sigh, 'we must look our last on this ancestral home' -- and then some one else says something -- and you don't know for pages and pages where the home is, or who Hildegarde is or anything about it.") I'm happy to find this book is in print in the US -- now I'm going to look for The Wouldbegoods...

This book is amazing and I love chapter 15 13 and 16 the most bc they are so juice and good.

Nesbit is an excellent story teller. She could just turn something really mundane into something wonderful.This Puffin edition is very lovely to get hold of and the text is of soothing size and not too small.What do children do if and when they they find out their family's fortune is lost. The Bastables simply do what they can to lay their hands on some money including setting a dog at an old gentleman. Surely that is something rather impish and wicked somehow, but you will see there is an unexpected turn.