- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Puffin Books; New edition edition (25 May 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140367519
- ISBN-13: 978-0140367515
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #16 in Books > Children's Books > Authors & Illustrators > N > Nesbit, E
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Sent away to the country after a particularly unruly episode, the well-meaning but wayward Bastable children solemnly vow to reform their behavior. But their grand schemes for great and virtuous deeds lead to just as much mayhem as their ordinary games, and sometimes more.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I wish Oswald were real, I honestly do. He's the greatest, so utterly pompous yet compassionate and humane, so three-dimensional, so all-knowing, yet so childishly naive. The Wouldbegoods is hilarious and quite informative. I learned a great deal about British vocabulary--"ripping" is now my most-loved word.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
It is the foundation of the pyramid that is my soul!
28 Feb 1999
Format:Paperback
I wish Oswald were real, I honestly do. He's the greatest, so utterly pompous yet compassionate and humane, so three-dimensional, so all-knowing, yet so childishly naive. The Wouldbegoods is hilarious and quite informative. I learned a great deal about British vocabulary--"ripping" is now my most-loved word.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Maybe They Should Try Being Bad.....?
19 April 2001
Format:Paperback
"I do believe we are the worst children who ever lived!" Alice Bastable cries when yet another plan of the 'Wouldbegoods' goes disastrously wrong. Her despair is understandable, in their attempts to perform good deeds the six Bastable children and their two friends wreck havoc across the British countryside. Yet in the end they do manage to do good, quite by accident. Absolutely hilarious.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Banished for the Summer!
31 July 2000
Format:Paperback
6 Bastables and two friends are sent to the country for the summer, and try to do good things. Of course, the best laid plans...But what child can resist a story of children living in a moat house, spending their summer free to explore the English countryside? What great ideas will the children come up with next? The characters are funny and very real. There is trouble around every bend, but a theme of honesty and integrity runs through the story like a breath of fresh country air.
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