Also published as: The Water-Babies

Author: Charles Kingsley Year: 1863 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic, Fantasy, Award winners, Free books, Children Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing Project Gutenberg ISBNs: 9781853261480 9780199645602 1853261483 0199645604

Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, 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. 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. Similar books: The Land of Green Ginger by Noel Langley Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray Mary Poppins Comes Back by P. L. Travers The Wouldbegoods by E. Nesbit The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit Stig of the Dump by Clive King A Castle of Bone by Penelope Farmer An Enemy at Green Knowe by L. M. Boston The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster