# The Water Babies

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- Book: [The Water Babies](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-kingsley/the-water-babies) ([The Water Babies.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-kingsley/the-water-babies.md))
- Authors: [Charles Kingsley](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-kingsley)
- Publisher: puffin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4036-736-2
- Pages: 256
- Published: 1995-04-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

When Tom, an ill-treated little chimney-sweep, jumps into a clear, cool stream to clean himself something magical happens; he is turned into a tiny water baby by the fairies. He enters a strange, magical underwater world, and travels beyond the world's end to the other end-of-nowhere, getting into all sorts of scrapes and encountering creatures beautiful and frightening along the way. He also learns many important lessons - it is a voyage of discovery that Tom will never forget.