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The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby; Abridged Paperback - 1995
by Charles Kingsley
About this book
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. The book was extremely popular during its day, and was a mainstay of children's literature through the 1920s, but eventually fell out of favor in part due to its prejudices against Irish, Jews, Catholics, blacks, Americans, and the poor.
In the style of Victorian-era novels, The Water-Babies is a didactic moral fable about a young chimney sweep, Tom, who falls into a river and becomes a 'water-baby,' guided by moral teachers through lessons and adventures, eventually earning the right to become human again and being united with an upper-class girl Ellie who had also become a 'water-baby.'
In the style of Victorian-era novels, The Water-Babies is a didactic moral fable about a young chimney sweep, Tom, who falls into a river and becomes a 'water-baby,' guided by moral teachers through lessons and adventures, eventually earning the right to become human again and being united with an upper-class girl Ellie who had also become a 'water-baby.'
Summary
When Tom, an ill-treated little chimney-sweep, jumps into a clear, cool stream to clean himself something magical happens; he is turned into a tiny water baby by the fairies. He enters a strange, magical underwater world, and travels beyond the world's end to the other end-of-nowhere, getting into all sorts of scrapes and encountering creatures beautiful and frightening along the way. He also learns many important lessons - it is a voyage of discovery that Tom will never forget.
First line
Once upon a time there was a little chimney-sweep, and his name was Tom.
First Edition Identification
First edition (London Macmillan and Company 1863) is usually without the L'Envoi leaf as is almost always encountered as the author had it removed from all but the first 200 or so copies. Illustrations in this edition include two full page plates by J. Noel Paton and with a number of small illustrations used throughout as opening initials.
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- Title The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby; Abridged
- Author Charles Kingsley
- Binding Paperback
- Edition International Ed
- Pages 235
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Puffin Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date July 1, 1995
- Abridged Yes
- ISBN 9780140367362 / 0140367365
- Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.8 x 5.08 x 0.54 in (19.81 x 12.90 x 1.37 cm)
- Ages 09 to 12 years
- Grade levels 4 - 7
- Reading level 1070
- Library of Congress subjects Fairy tales, Chimney sweeps - Fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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