The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley

The Water-Babies

Charles Kingsley with Jessie Willcox Smith (Illustrator)

180 pages paperback 1863

242 editions

fiction childrens classics fantasy adventurous lighthearted reflective slow-paced
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The protagonist is Tom, a young chimney sweep, who falls into a river after encountering an upper-class girl named Ellie and being chased out of her house. There he appears to drown and is transformed into a "water-baby," as he is told by a caddisfly

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