The Water Babies
The beloved Victorian children's tale-now available in its original unabridged editionInstantly popular upon its initial publication in 1863, The Water Babies is at once a bewitching childhood fantasy and a skillfully woven moral allegory. Tom, a young chimney sweep, escapes his horrendous job...
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The beloved Victorian children's tale-now available in its original unabridged editionInstantly popular upon its initial publication in 1863, The Water Babies is at once a bewitching childhood fantasy and a skillfully woven moral allegory. Tom, a young chimney sweep, escapes his horrendous job and his cruel boss, Grimes, when fairies plunge him into a fantastical world under the sea. As he meets and befriends his fellow water babies, as well as all sorts of sea creatures, he begins to learn some valuable lessons. Much in demand by scholars, this authoritative new edition-featuring the Victorian illustrations from early editions-will charm children and adults alike.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143105091 (0143105094)
Publish date: April 29th 2008
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 198
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Juvenile,
Historical Fiction,
Fairy Tales
bookshelves: re-read, winter20092010, published-1863, adventure, britain-england, fantasy, fraudio, kiddlewinks, play-dramatisation, victorian Read in January, 1962 ** spoiler alert ** It's a toss up whether I read this or What Katy Did as my first ever read.to.myself.but.not.for.school book. It ...
I loved, loved this book as a child and gave to my daughter when she was little. She grew up to be an artist and told me that the strange intriguingly illustrated world of this book was one of her influences. Below are some images from the book:
I could only take about 70% of this, and am actually amazed that I made it that far. The author is prejudiced (against the Irish and the Americans) and extremely condescending. I did like the background info that the author was a Preacher who wrote this in support of Darwin. So I guess he gets pr...
I have such fond memories of this book from childhood, that I thought I would take the chance to re-read it. There are horrible bits in it that I obviously didn't pick up on when I was a child, but other than that, it was as good as I remember.Some of the sentences are very long, and the words used ...
It's a toss up whether I read this or What Katy Did as my first ever read.to.myself.but.not.for.school book. It was a cloth covered book that belonged to maternal grandmother who had died before I was born, and I remember trying to draw the sweep in black wax crayon on the inside of the front cover ...
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