The Water Babies : A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
Kingsley, Charles, Reverend, 1819-18751878
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Tom, a young chimney sweep, falls into a river. There he appears to drown and is transformed into a "water-baby", and begins his moral education. The story is thematically concerned with Christian redemption, though Kingsley also uses the book to argue that England treats its poor badly, and to question child labour, among other themes.
Main title:
The Water Babies : A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby / by The Rev. Charles Kingsley; Illustrations by Sir J .Noel Paton and Percival Skelton.
Author:
Kingsley, Charles, Reverend, 1819-1875Paton, J. Noël (Joseph Noël), Sir, 1821-1901, IllustratorSkelton, Percival, Illustrator
Imprint:
London : Macmillan and Co., 1878.
Collation:
387p. : Illustrations ; 19.5 cm.
Local class:
4/KIN
Language:
English
BRN:
4013413