The Water-Babies

Locations
Call Number: J Fiction / Kingsley, Charles
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	J Fiction / Kingsley, Charles	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	J Fiction / Kingsley, Charles	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Youth level.
The adventures of Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, who is stolen by fairies and turned into a water baby.

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Don't mistake this as a children's book ... its an allegorical fairytale submitted by sVfGI7Glt2pz7GZgVB90 on August 16, 2019, 12:18pm Written to teach unconditional love, redemption, and other Christian values. Features the account of a ten-year-old chimneysweep named Tom, callously abused by his master, Grimes. Tom drowns and the fairies turn him into a peculiar creature called a “water-baby.” In his new life, Tom meets many fairies, aquatic creatures, and other water-babies. In the end, Tom helps his spiteful former master find repentance. A significant book, it helped rally support for the 1840 Chimney Sweepers’ Regulation Act, which forbade the use of child labor to climb into and clean chimneys.