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The Wouldbegoods

Author
Edith Nesbit
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
7 hours 20 minutes
ISBN
9781802562231
Published
3 January 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Nesbit
  • treasure
  • adventure
  • fantasy
  • Tales
  • Fairy
  • fairytale
  • children
  • magic
  • bedtime

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Description

The Bastable siblings earnestly try to be good and tumble straight into comic mishaps, proving virtue is harder than intention when childhood mischief still runs the house. Warm family chaos with a purpose. Spoken as when the Wouldbegoods still ask what goodness looks like after another well-meant disaster.

Author

E. Nesbit (1858–1924) reinvented children's literature by letting magic walk into ordinary English life — leftover tea, railway platforms, and wishes that go wrong in the most practical ways. The Railway Children, the Bastable books, and the Psammead adventures taught young readers that wonder need not be solemn. Nesbit wrote as an adult who still remembered how children actually talk: funny, fierce, and rarely pious.

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