The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Alma Junior Classics)

The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Alma Junior Classics)

E. Nesbit, Peter Bailey (Illustrator)
$12.00
Publication Date: February 23rd, 2021
Publisher:
Alma Classics
ISBN:
9781847498427
Pages:
320

Description

Praised by J.K. Rowling, Jacqueline Wilson and many others, The Story of the Treasure Seekers is the first book in the Bastable trilogy. Alma Junior edition is beautifully illustrated by Peter Bailey and contains extra material for young readers.

Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel and Horace Octavius (“H.O.”) Bastable are desperate to help their widowed father to restore the family's fortunes after his business fails.

Their moneymaking schemes, from digging for treasure in their South-London garden to becoming highwaymen on Blackheath, mainly lead to a good deal of trouble, until one adventure promises to change everything…

About the Author

E. Nesbit is the author of the classic children's story The Railway Children.

Peter Bailey was born in India and grew up in London. Since graduating from the Brighton School of Art, his extraordinary career has seen him illustrate books by some of Britain's best-known authors and poets, including Allan Ahlberg and Alexander McCall Smith. For twenty years he also taught illustration at the Liverpool School of Art.

Praise for The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Alma Junior Classics)

“I love E. Nesbit – I think she is great and I identify with the way that she writes. Her children are very real children and she was quite a groundbreaker in her day.” —J.K. Rowling

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