THE NEW TREASURE SEEKERS - Book 3 in the Bastable Children's Adventure Trilogy (ePub)

New Treasure Seekers: Or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune. Book 3 in the Adventures of the Bastable Children.

The six Bastable children fill their free time with entertainments that don't always turn out as they plan. But whether telling fortunes at a party, unwittingly assisting an elopement, reforming their nasty cousin Archibald, or even getting arrested, it is all good fun, and usually for a good cause.



The well-meaning but accident-prone Bastable siblings are given another outing by Edith Nesbit, following on from the success of The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899) and The Wouldbegoods (1900). We reacquaint ourselves with the 'anonymous' author Oswald, with all his familiar malapropisms and self-proclaimed modesty, along with his siblings Dora (the sensible eldest) and then, after Oswald, Dicky (his frequent lieutenant), Alice, Noël (a wouldbe poet), and Horace Octavius (or H. O.).



The thirteen episodes often reference exotic places (including Rome, China, Italy or the Golden Orient) though we never leave the confines of Kent: they also 'big up' the protagonists ('The Intrepid Explorer and His Lieutenant'), suggest dastardly deeds are afoot ('Archibald the Unpleasant', 'The Turk in Chains; or, Richard's Revenge') or feature the Bastables' charitable, but doomed, attempts to remedy the scrapes they have got themselves into ('The Conscience-Pudding' and 'The Poor and Needy'). As ever, you sense their hearts are in the right place even if their steps constantly lead them astray. Even when they are involved in revenge (at least twice!) you feel they are attempting to right wrongs to the best of their imagination, ability and reasoning.



With New Treasure Seekers there is definitely a sense of the closing of the door.



10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities by the publisher.

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KEYWORDS/TAGS: New Treasure Seekers. Book 3, Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune, Action, Adventure, Road To Rome, Silly Stowaway, Conscience-Pudding, Archibald, Unpleasant, Over The Water, To China, Young Antiquaries, Intrepid Explorer, Lieutenant, Turk In Chains, Richard's Revenge, Golden Gondola, Flying Lodger, Smuggler's Revenge, Zaïda, Mysterious Prophetess, Golden Orient, Lady, License, Friendship's Garland, Poor And Needy,

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REVIEWS:

'Endlessly surprising and inventive … She is also simply the funniest writer we have ever had' Frank Cottrell-Boyce



'Nesbit belongs with those writers of children's books who are successful because of their skills as storytellers. Indeed, she was one of the first. She speaks to the reader, and it's almost as though you can hear her voice' Quentin Blake



No matter how hard the Bastable children try to be good, they almost always fail spectacularly. Whether making a disastrous Christmas pudding for charity, spending a dark night in an empty windmill or fortune-telling at a fete, the Bastables cannot help getting into all sorts of mischief.



Edith Nesbit was one of the most influential children's writers ever to have lived, and her timeless books include The Railway Children and Five Children and It.