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The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby; Abridged (Puffin Classics) (1863)

av Charles Kingsley

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Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bothered, he slips into a cooling stream, falls asleep, and becomes a Water Baby.… (mer)
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On the one hand, I don't approve of abridged books; on the other hand, much of the moralizing was left out, and even so, I thought there was too much. But there are some clever bits and he mentions the wise men of Gotham, who, like the wise men of Chelm, try to catch the moon when they see it in a body of water. And it's an early example of original children's fairy tales. ( )
  raizel | Nov 13, 2011 |
This Victorian children's morality tale is one that I've not heard many other people mention and that is a shame. It is more sophisticated than many elementary school-aged books written now and yet still sweet. Tom, a little chimney-sweep who is smacked about by his master, is cleaning a chimney at a great house when he is mistakenly thought to be a thief. He is terrified and runs off, all the while trailed by the queen of the fairies. After encountering huge obstacles in his path and overcoming them, he faces more mistrust and so wanders off to bathe in the river. He falls in and is transformed into a water-baby. As a water-baby, he has many adventures and learns to be a better boy than he had ever been when on land. This story owes much both to Gulliver's Travels and to The Odyssey. There are many strange creatures who instruct Tom in what is right and good during his quest and he has a loyal girl waiting for him to come home to her during his strangest adventure. The language would probably be a bit tough for elementary school readers today, either because they didn't understand it or simply because it is quite ornate and descriptive, unlike today's books, but the creativity of the land in which the water-babies live and the creatures that populate it might help children overcome these difficulties. There were pockets of the story that were a bit tedious in their insistence on moral lessons being pointed out in case the reader missed the significance of Tom's experience but this is very much a hallmark of the literature of the time and didn't ultimately detract from the overall loveliness of the story. ( )
1 rösta whitreidtan | Jan 18, 2009 |
Not really a children's book , more early SF / modern morality tale/ social commentary . Firmly grounded in evolution and biology as known at the time, Tom the chimney sweep's boy is transformed into a miniature aquatic baby complete with external gills. He learns and develops in his new environment and evolves into a decent human being. ( )
  wendyrey | May 11, 2008 |
I never tire of this charming story, the magic has been with me since I first read it at a very early age, and continues now as I read it to my own eight year old... Some stories will live forever. ( )
  Lyn.S.Soussi | Nov 29, 2006 |
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To my youngest son Grenville Arthur and to all other good little boysCome read me my riddle, each good little man; If you cannot read it, no grown-up folk can.
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So Mr Grimes touched his hat to him when he rode through the town, and called him a 'buirdly awd chap', and his young ladies 'gradely lasses', which are two high compliments in the north country; and thought that that made up for his poaching Sir John's pheasants; whereby you may percieve that Mr Grimes had not been to a properly inspected Government National School. [p. 7]
On the borders of that island he found Gotham where the wise men live; the same who dragged the pond because the moon had fallen into it, and planted a hedge round the cuckoo, to keep spring all year. [p. 205]
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Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bothered, he slips into a cooling stream, falls asleep, and becomes a Water Baby.

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