Water-Babies : Collins Classics
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Author:KINGSLEY Charles
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ISBN:9780007449460
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Publication Date:March 2012
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Pages:192
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Fourth Estate
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Country of Publication:
Water-Babies : Collins Classics
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Author:KINGSLEY Charles
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ISBN:9780007449460
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Publication Date:March 2012
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Pages:192
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Fourth Estate
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Country of Publication:
Description
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.
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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.