"I love E Nesbit - I think she is great and I identify with
the way that she writes. Her children are very real children and
she was quite a groundbreaker in her day."-J K
Rowling
"[Nesbit] could present everyday people caught up in supernatural
situations just as naturally as she permits the realistic details
of everyday life to obtrude into her world of fantasy."-Horn
Book
"A good case could be made for E. Nesbit as the best writer for
children ever." -Washington Post Book World
"For many readers - H.G. Wells and Laurence Houseman, G.K.
Chesterton and Noel Coward - for these and thousands more, the most
magical stories of modern times are those by that Edwardian wizard
E. Nesbit…To come upon any Nesbit today, hitherto unread,…is like
receiving a letter from a friend whom you have believed dead….It
doesn''t really matter what her children do, they are real
children, quite self-sufficient, almost always very funny and
rarely insufferable. ''The reason why those children are like real
children,'' explained Miss Nesbit, ''is that I was a child once
myself, and by some fortunate magic I remember exactly how I used
to feel and think about things.'' And she could have gone on to
say, ''The reason why I write some of the best magic books in which
anything, even miracles, can happen and everyone believes in them,
is because I know that anything, even miracles, can and do happen
all the time.''"-Leo Lerman, The New York Times
"For younger readers, or for read-alouds, I can''t resist pointing
out the elegant new hardcover edition of children''s lit matriarch
E. Nesbit''s The House of Arden ...Nesbit''s
breezy voice, air of camaraderie and nascent feminism, as well as
her sense of humour give House of Arden great
liveliness and verve... Innovative in her time, Nesbit''s keen
sympathy for children''s feelings and humorously practical take on
the results of magic are still refreshing." --The Toronto
Star
"New York Review Books deserves a medal for its burgeoning
collection of reissues of out-of-print children''s books, books
that need to see the light of day in the hands of a new generations
of readers, books such as T. H. White''s Mistress Masham''s
Repose, Wee Gillis, by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson ,
a slew of books by Esther Averill and, of course, the incomparable
Ms. Nesbit''s The House of Arden... Magic, mayhem
and time travel ensue... The book is a treasure itself, a slice of
Edwardian life..." --The Globe and Mail