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The Wouldbegoods
E. Nesbit
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The Bastable children, first met in The Treasure Seekers, are sent to stay in the countryside; is it large enough to contain their exuberant activities? They (and Pincher the dog) have every intention of being good…
The Bastable children, first met in The Treasure Seekers, are sent to stay in the countryside; is it large enough to contain their exuberant activities? They (and Pincher the dog) have every intention of being good…
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It was something like this:
"In Memory of BILL SIMPKINSDead for Queen & Country
Honor to his name and all
other brave soldiers."
[Pg 59]
We could not get in what we meant to at first, so we had to give up the poetry.
We fixed it up when it was dry. We had to dig jolly deep to get the posts to stand up, but the gardener helped us.
Then the girls made wreaths of white flowers, roses and canterbury bells, and lilies and pinks, and sweet pease and daisies, and put them over the posts, like you see in the picture. And I think if Bill Simpkins had known how sorry we were, he would have been glad. Oswald only hopes if he falls on the wild battle-field, which is his highest ambition, that somebody will be as sorry about him as he was about Bill, that's all!
When all was done, and what flowers there were over from the wreaths scattered under the tombstone between the posts. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Frankly, not a patch on the original The Story of the Treasure Seekers. While the former was episodic, it did have a unifying element of all the children's escapades occurring while pursuing the goal of "restoring the family fortunes." In this sequel, there isn't any real motivation, so it's just ch
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this was so much worse than five children & it, i didn’t like any of the characters, the stories were really boring & i feel like it could have been so much shorter. at least in five children there was magic and a cool fairy. i know i’m not the audience for this book, but equa
I read a volume that included both The Story of the Treasure Seekers and The Wouldbegoods with an incredible introduction by Noel Streatfeild - if you can find this volume, do read it. I come to Nesbit quite late in life - she wasn't an author I enjoyed as a child. She's a very modern writer - she's
It seems a bit strange (for me) to grade a book I did not finish as 3-stars, but I got 60% of the way through. It's okay, but it's not grabbing me as the first had done. It's on my Kindle, and after I reached halfway I just stopped wanting to read it, in that Everything Else I had downloaded (or wou
Edith Nesbit’s life was certainly unconventional by late Victorian and Edwardian standards, and it’s not surprising that her own childhood experiences and adult observations find themselves thinly fictionalised in her novels, particularly those written for children. Typical is her re-use of names of