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The Water-Babies | 
| Manufacturer: MacMay
Category: EBooks
Buy New: $0.99
Sales Rank: 63792
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B001EQ62F6
Publication Date: August 24, 2008
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Product Description
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863. The book was extremely popular during its day, and was a mainstay of children's literature through the 1920s.brbrThe 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 dies and is transformed into a "water baby", as he is told by a caddis fly #x2014; an insect that sheds its skin #x2014; and begins his moral education. The story is thematically concerned with Christian redemption, though Kingsley also uses the book to argue that England treats its poor badly, and to question child labour, among other themes.brbr
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