The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 28 de fev. de 2012 - 194 páginas
This is a magical fairytale about Tom, the little chimney sweep, who falls into the river after realizing his wretched appearance in the presence of a young female aristocrat. Upon falling in the river Tom encounters the wonders and fairies of the water world. And upon proving himself moral, is accepted by the other water babies. With exotic language specific to the world of the water babies, this proves a whimsical read for children of all ages.

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Charles Kingsley, a clergyman of the Church of England, who late in his life held the chair of history at Cambridge University, wrote mostly didactic historical romances. He put the historical novel to new use, not to teach history, but to illustrate some religious truth. Westward Ho! (1855), his best-known work, is a tale of the Spanish main in the days of Queen Elizabeth I. Hypatia: New Foes with Old Faces (1853) is the story of a pagan girl-philosopher who was torn to pieces by a Christian mob. The story is strongly anti-Roman Catholic.. Hereward the Wake, or The Watchful Hereward the Wake, or The Watchful (1866) is a tale of a Saxon outlaw. The Water-Babies (1863), written for Kingsley's youngest child, "would be a tale for children were it not for the satire directed at the parents of the period," said Andrew Lang. Alton Locke (1850) and Yeast (1851) reflect Kingsley's leadership in "muscular Christianity" and his dramatization of social issues.

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