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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.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.

The Water Babies

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    A Paperback / softback by Charles Kingsley

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint William Collins
      Published 2 January 2012
      ISBN-13 9780007449460
      978-0007449460
      ISBN-10 0007449461
      Also in:
      Mythical creatures: Fairies, elves and similar elf-like, fairy-like or magic-like beings or folk Mythical creatures: Mermaids, mermen and other water spirits or beings

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.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.

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