Dial Books
New York -- ©1987 -- 127pp
ISBN: 0-8037-0476-3
Introduction by Neal Streatfeild
Watercolor illustrations by George Buchanan
Line drawings by Edward Ardizzone
A short autobiography of children's author Edith Nesbit.
I greatly enjoy the works of Edith Nesbit and often wish that more people would read her now. She's most famous for The Railway Children, though I don't feel it's her strongest. This autobiography, which really only covers her first ten years, is written in the same, conversational style that her books are written.
I didn't find anything particularly interesting or revealing in this book, other than that she suffered from a fear of the dark as a child, and that her sister was very good at telling her fantasy stories. I couldn't help but wonder if some of those stories her sister told became the basis for any of her own later works.
This book would probably only be of interest to a true fan of Nesbit's children's books, and even then, maybe only slightly so.
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