The Water-Babies

A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

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Charles Kingsley

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Paperback / softback

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Best Novel Classics

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Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The Water-Babies Synopsis: Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the cruel and villainous chimney master, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bothered, he slips into a cooling stream, falls fast asleep, and becomes a water baby. And he goes thorough all sorts of adventures, all of which have morals to teach, before becoming a creature of the land again, as a grown man. In this new life, he meets all sorts of aquatic creatures, including an engaging old lobster, other water babies, and at last reaches St Branden's Isle where he encounters the fierce Mrs Bedonbyasyoudid and the motherly Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby. After a long and arduous quest to the Other-end-of-Nowhere young Tom achieves his heart's desire. Amazing is Kingsley's forward-thinking regarding the environment and pollution, and the raising of children in a kind and forgiving manner He doesn't believe in physical, psychological, verbal punishment. It's cute how he talks directly to his 4-year-old, for whom he wrote the book. Scroll Up and Get Your Copy! Library of Great Children's Books: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain https: //www.createspace.com/6394066 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain https: //www.createspace.com/6427418 American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum https: //www.createspace.com/6413969 Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs https: //www.createspace.com/6365550 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum https: //www.createspace.com/6426287 TIK-TOK of OZ by L. Frank Baum https: //www.createspace.com/6353841 Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum https: //www.createspace.com/6356346 The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting https: //www.createspace.com/6356525 The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams https: //www.createspace.com/6429910 Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm https: //www.createspace.com/6440051 Sky Island by L. Frank Baum https: //www.createspace.com/6446563

Author Biography:

Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 - 23 January 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives that failed but led to the working reforms of the progressive era. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin. Kingsley was born in Holne, Devon, the elder of two sons of the Reverend Charles Kingsley and his wife Mary Lucas Kingsley. His brother, Henry Kingsley, also became a novelist. He spent his childhood in Clovelly, Devon. In 1869 Kingsley resigned his Cambridge professorship and, from 1870 to 1873, was a canon of Chester Cathedral. While in Chester he founded the Chester Society for Natural Science, Literature and Art, which played an important part in the establishment of the Grosvenor Museum. He was sympathetic to the idea of evolution and was one of the first to welcome Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species. He had been sent an advance review copy . His chief power as a novelist lay in his descriptive faculties. The descriptions of South American scenery in Westward Ho!, of the Egyptian desert in Hypatia, of the North Devon scenery in Two Years Ago, are brilliant; and the American scenery is even more vividly and more truthfully described when he had seen it only by the eye of his imagination than in his work At Last, which was written after he had visited the tropics.

Release date Australia

July 26th, 2016

Author

Charles Kingsley

Series

Best Novel Classics

Pages

192

Audience

Children / Juvenile

Dimensions

152x229x10

ISBN-13

9781535543002

Product ID

37533701

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