About this title: The Water-Babies (1863) has claim to being the most peculiar book ever to achieve the status of a children's classic. The story follows Tom in his land-life as a climbing boy for a chimney sweep and in his after-life as a water-baby, where he gains redemption from selfishness as well as from drudgery. On to this fantasy Kingsley grafts a series of digressions and comic asides, through which he comments on a range of contemporary issues. Kingsley ostensibly wrote The Water-Babies for his infant son, but its erratic flights of fancy are liable to take it beyond the immediate comprehension of ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Derrydale Books
Date Published: None
Description: Grade: C. Catalog: Kids' Books General Synopsis: 28 pages. In this Victorian fantasy, plunging into a land beneath the water, a young chimney-sweep discovers a wonderful and mystical world of water-b... read more
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: junior deluxe edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Nelson Doubleday
Date Published: 1954
Description: MacDonald, Roberta. Good. No dust jacket. 60p., ill., 19 cm. 8.5" Tall. 222 papges. Frontispiece is in full colour, other illustrations are b/w. No markings in book. A crisp clean copy. A Junior Deluxe Edition. an attractive collectible. read more
"It was interesting to re-read this book as an adult, having first read it when i was around 8 years old. I cant say it is a book i particuarly enjoy reading, but i give its rating on its merits as an imaginative classic"
"Read this in installments in my "Bobo" magazine years and years and years ago in a graphic story version. I remembered being riveted and moved by it. Would love to find the comic books/ bundle out of pages of "Bobo" again... along with "Pak Janggut" and "Deni Manusia Ikan". Anybody got an idea where I could get a hold of them? :)"
"I read this as a child, so the larger implications of the allegories were lost on me, but I loved Tom's adventures! My old hardcover copy has the engravings and everything, it's really cool."
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