The Wouldbegoods (Hesperus Minor Classics) - Softcover

Nesbit, E.

3.95

2,086 ratings by Goodreads

9781843915317: The Wouldbegoods (Hesperus Minor Classics)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843915316 ISBN 13: 9781843915317

Publisher: Hesperus Minor, 2015

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

The Bastable children are up to yet more adventures in this sequel to The Story of the Treasure Seekers—a delightful classic that will charm children and adults alike

The Bastable children have been banished to the country in disgrace—following a particularly damaging reenaction of a jungle scene featuring expensive stuffed animals and a garden hose. The gang of six, Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel, and Horace Octavius (H.O.), decides to turn over a new leaf. Spurred on by Dora's urgings, the children found "The Society of the Wouldbegoods"—aiming to mend their ways by being good whenever possible. But the schemes they undertake to try to be good and make themselves useful never seem to quite go as planned. Even when they are attempting to be well behaved, they seem unable to endear themselves to adults, instead, among other things, they cause a fire, some flooding, get held hostage, and find time to purchase a pistol along the way. It seems that despite their best intentions, they are destined to leave a trail of destruction in their wake—and to be, frankly, naughty.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Edith Nesbit (1858–1924) was a prolific children's author, writing more than 60 books including The Railway Children, Five Children and It, and The Story of the Treasure Seekers.

From AudioFile:

In this sequel to THE TREASURE SEEKERS, the Bastable siblings spend a summer making mischief in the English countryside. The wonderfully imaginative children form a society for the doing of good deeds--with unfailingly disastrous and amusing results. Their adventures (seamlessly abridged) are presented as vignettes with snatches of music in between. Teresa Gallagher sounds unerringly like children should sound. She's completely convincing as both the boys and the girls (and the grown-ups)--and she's particularly successful in the narrating voice of Oswald, who is the anonymous teller of these adventures. Edith Nesbit's strikingly modern British classic is just as welcome--and feels just as relevant--today. J.M.D. � AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.