Bastable Children

Nesbit wrote ... "children's fiction which, always in a fantasy frame, clearly incorporates some sf topoi. Her current reputation rests almost exclusively on her work for children, in particular the children's adventure story." "[Her] first novel of ambition for older children, after a number of smaller books for younger audiences, was The Story of the Treasure Seekers [...] (coll of linked stories; 1899), which begins the Bastable sequence of essentially nonfantastic tales. Later authors, like C S Lewis in his Narnia sequence, were clearly influenced by its narrative tone and voice. Oswald Bastable, a child, is the narrator; Michael Moorcock imported a version of Oswald as a grown man into his Oswald Bastable sequence ...". --SFE3, biographical entry by John Clute
"It was not until the publication of a series of stories about the Bastable children, based in part on her own childhood experiences, that EN found her niche. Collected in volume form as The Story of the Treasure Seekers [...] (coll 1899), these established her as a major writer for children. But, although two more Bastable serial novels followed, she now turned to fantasy ..." --SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), biog. entry by Lisa Tuttle

Titles (4)

#	Title	Author(s)	Year	Type
1	The Story of the Treasure Seekers	E. Nesbit	1899
2	The Wouldbegoods	E. Nesbit	1901
3	New Treasure Seekers	E. Nesbit	1904
4	Oswald Bastable and Others	E. Nesbit	1905	Collection