New Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit Fiction Fantasy & Magic

THOSE BUMPTIOUS BASTABLES!Oswald is a delightful narrator and the stories he tells are among Nesbits best. -- Gore VidalAs if the remarkable collections of childrens adventures The Story of the Treasure Seekers and The Wouldbegoods werent enough! E. Nesbits third book of this series finishes the delightful trilogy by this famous fantasy author.Who needs fantasy though when you have these wonderful tales of the Bastable children narrated by Oswald Bastable in his best superior third person fashion. Here again is Oswalds troublesome little brother H.O. and Dicky and Dora and Alice and Noël to say nothing of the Bastable uncles father and mother. The story is told from a childs point of view. The narrator is Oswald but on the first page he announces: 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 dont. However his occasional lapse into first person and the undue praise he likes to heap on himself makes his identity obvious to the attentive reader long before he reveals it himself.