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The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection)[UNABRIDGED] (Classic Books on ...

14 reviews
Edith Nesbit, Flo Gibson (Narrator)

Audio Book Contractors, Inc., 1991

Classic amusing (very English) adventure
The Treasure Seekers The six Bastable children are determined to restore their family fallen fortunes. They do not know exactly what it was that made their fortunes "fall" but it had something to do with mother dying, father being sick and his business partner running away. This depressing information is brought about casually and is merely the background for what is about to follow - a (very ...

Railway Children (Wordsworth Children's Classics) (Wordsworth Collection)

30 reviews
Edith Nesbit

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1998

Read It!!!
This is not simply a children's book. It is an extremely touching story of three children whose father is suddenly taken away from them and how they cope with the changed circumstances, how they adjust to "play at being poor" as their mother says. It is a book that is bound to enthrall you.

Phoenix and the Carpet (Wordsworth Children's Classics) (Wordsworth Children's Classics)

10 reviews
Edith Nesbit

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999

Puffin classics are LOVE
I love Puffin classics! Complete and unabridged, they bring stories to life for children with lovely covers and readable text, and at $3.99-$5.99 are a great deal! I'm collecting all of them. :-)

The Children's Shakespeare

6 reviews
Edith Nesbit; Flo Gibson (Narrator)

Audio Book Contractors, Inc., 2004

Fantastic introduction to Shakespeare for younger children
I read and reread this book as a youth. The stories read much like classic fairy tales with tragedy, irony, and moral lessons. The writing is very accessible and encouraged me to seek out the full length "stories" in their original (play script) form once I was old enough (6th/7th grade) to really read them. For a child who has a love of literature, these retellings of the great plays may start a ...

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children: Being a Choice Collection from the World's Greatest Classic ...

5 reviews
William Shakespeare

Smithmark Publishers, 1997

Shakespeare for Children
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children provides a rich introduction to 20 plays of the Bard. The preface states: "But Shakespeare wrote for grown-up people... Hence this volume. To reproduce the entertaining stories contained in the plays of Shakespeare, in a form so simple that children can understand and enjoy them, was the object had in view by the author..." E. Nesbitt, author of ...

Tales from The Book of Dragons (PlainTales Classics)

1 review
Edith Nesbit

PlainTales Inc., 2008

Good stories, very funny!
These stories are very funny and they're good for the whole family. The Book of Beasts is about a boy who becomes king and gets a whole library of books. Some of the books are magic and one of the books he opens lets out a dragon that terrorizes the kingdom. He tries all kinds of ways to get the dragon back into the book and has lots of funny adventures along the way. The second story is about ...

The House Of Arden (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) [UNABRIDGED] (Classic Books on Cassettes ...

4 reviews
Edith Nesbit; Flo Gibson (Narrator)

Audio Book Contractors, Inc., 1999

Phantastic Literature of the best kind - to be reread again
Two 10-year-olds are the last survivors of a long line of english aristocrats.The family castle lies in ruins, but the children are determined to restore it to its former glory with the help of the long-lost family treasure. The task seems daunting, but they soon discover there's some intricate, powerful magic in the family crest.. Subsequently the treasure hunt hurtles along at breathtaking ...

Five Children and It (Wordsworth Children's Classics) (Wordsworth Children's Classics)

28 reviews
Edith Nesbit

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999

A Fan Of Magical Adventures
Five Children and It While their mother is away, caring for their ailing grandmother, Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane find a sand fairy, called a Psamead. He hadn't been uncovered since the days of the dionsours, and had no idea about modern children, and their wishes. The sand fairy, the childern call `It', says he will grant the children's wishes. The already peculiar looking fairy, ...

The Enchanted Castle

29 reviews
Edith Nesbit, Peter Glassman

HarperCollins, 1992

This children's classic enchanted me ... Brilliant!
I've always been enraptured by children's books with magic in them, especially when the author writes about ordinary children, weaving magic into the plot with such ease that it's entirely believable. I found this book in a collection of my granddaughter's childhood books, was out of reading material, so picked it up just for a quick glance. Well, that "quick glance" turned into several hours ...

The Magic City (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) [UNABRIDGED] (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection)

5 reviews
Edith Nesbit, Flo Gibson (Narrator)

Audio Book Contractors, Inc., 1998

Nesbit's best
More than a quarter of a century ago my sisters and I were captivated by E. Nesbit, and particularly by THE MAGIC CITY. Long unavailable (I have scoured used book shops and the Net for copies for various children) it is great to have it easily available once more. I am happy to report that my own daughter was as taken with it as her aunts and I a generation earlier, and like us she at once began ...

MOSTLY GHOSTLY - 8 SPOOKY TALES TO CHILL YOUR BONES

1 review
Steve (adapted by) illustrated by John Bradley; Richard Middleton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Barry Pain, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Nesbit, F. Marion Crawford, M.R. James, Washington Irving Zorn

Courage Books, 1991

A good read aloud for Halloween
I have read this for the past couple of years to third graders for Halloween. My favorite and their's is "Man-size in Marble" by Edith Nesbit which is about a legend of two statues of evil knights that rise up from the dead and return to their home every Halloween. The remaining stories might be better for an older audience. It also includes "On the Brighton Road" by Richard Middleton, "Selecting ...

Dragon Tales (Junior Classics)
Kenneth Grahame, Edith Nesbit

Naxos AudioBooks, 2009

Here is a collection of four delightful dragon stories by two master writers for children. "The Reluctant Dragon" is the best known, but the others are equally appealing. In "The Reluctant Dragon", a boy discovers a dragon in a nearby cave. The villagers want to send for St George to slay him, but he is a friendly dragon and doesn't want to fight! In "The Island of Nine Whirlpools", a princess is imprisoned and a suitor has to get past the ...

The Magic World (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) [UNABRIDGED] (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection)

8 reviews
Edith Nesbit; Flo Gibson (Narrator)

Audio Book Contractors, Inc., 1997

Valuable Stories
This is a great book. I bought it when I was about to go on a trip, and I couldn't read it until I got on the plane. I allowed myself to read one story. The story was "The White Cat". Now, this was a great story, with a great charector. The white cat enchanted me, especialy because my grandmother had a white china cat. It was all I could do to wait until the plane to read the rest, but I did. The ...

New Treasure Seekers
Edith Nesbit, 1924

WELCOME TO ALL IN DEALS! This audio book can be played on an MP3 player or a compatible MP3 DVD, CD player. We are confident you will love this audio book. Book is in the public domain and read by volunteers. New Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit Oswald, Dora, Dicky, Alice, H.O, and Noel fill their free time with entertainments that dont always turn out as they plan. But whether telling fortunes at a fete, unwittingly assisting an ...

The Enchanted Castle (Usborne Young Reading Series 2)
Edith Nesbit

Usborne Publishing Ltd., 2007

100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories

2 reviews

Barnes & Noble, 2003

Great compilation
Let's get the stinkers out of the way first. Oscar Wilde's "The Sphinx Without a Secret" is a story without a ghost, or even a fright. Very disappointing from such a talented writer. That is by far the worst story, so let's not dwell on it. "The Sixth Tree" shows promise but suffers from a predictable ending, though it does offer a good little moral about man's misplaced reliance on science and, ...

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