The Water Babies

Author: Kingsley, Charles

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 2 January 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers (William Collins) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Collins Classics' series.

Paperback | 272 pages
173 x 104 x 18 | 154g

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‘In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby. A water-baby? You never heard of a water-baby. Perhaps not. That is the very reason why this story was written.’

Poor Tom is an orphan, employed by the underhand Grimes as a chimney sweep. While cleaning a chimney one day, Tom becomes lost and appears in Ellie’s bedroom. She mistakes him for a thief and he flees in fright, down to the edge of a stream where he falls asleep. In his dreamlike world, he becomes a water baby, swimming with the other water babies and discovering an aquatic playground full of strange and wonderful characters.