Project Gutenberg 2011-06-03 Public domain in the USA. 415 Kingsley, Charles 1819 1875 Kingley, Charles Kingsley, C. (Charles) Smith, Jessie Willcox 1863 1935 Smith, Jessie Wilcox The Water-Babies Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water-Babies Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook: #36309 (Illustrated in B & W and Color) #25564 (Illustrated in Color) #1018 (Plain HTML file) Produced by Suzanne Shell, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Water-Babies" by Charles Kingsley is a novel written in the mid-19th century. This enchanting tale follows Tom, a poor chimney-sweep who escapes his harsh life only to be transformed into a water-baby after a series of adventures and moral lessons. As he navigates the underwater world, the story intertwines themes of cleanliness, compassion, and personal growth, making it a rich narrative for children and adults alike. At the start of the story, readers are introduced to Tom, an impoverished chimney-sweep living in a northern English town. His life is characterized by hard work, hunger, and abuse from his master. A chance encounter with an Irishwoman sparks a longing for a different life, and after an incident involving his master, Tom escapes into the countryside. As he ventures farther from his old life, Tom's desire to be clean leads him to a stream, where he is transformed into a water-baby. This transformation marks the beginning of his journey toward innocence and understanding as he learns about the beauty and intricacies of nature in the underwater world, facing challenges that will ultimately guide him toward redemption. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/36309/36309-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 79.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Chimney sweeps -- Juvenile fiction Fairy tales -- England PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Novels Category: British Literature 384564 2025-06-14T18:07:04.064652 text/html 384199 2021-01-07T19:40:25 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1129701 2021-01-07T19:40:25 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1148250 2025-06-14T18:07:11.941585 application/epub+zip 1152689 2025-06-14T18:07:06.064687 application/epub+zip 193402 2025-06-14T18:07:04.688645 application/epub+zip 1638230 2025-06-14T18:07:15.961578 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1598600 2025-06-14T18:07:10.481628 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 262074 2022-09-16T14:42:56.296317 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 335188 2025-06-14T18:07:03.175634 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 335055 2021-01-07T19:40:25 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 123957 2021-01-07T19:40:25 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 335053 2021-01-07T19:40:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 123933 2021-01-07T19:40:25 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22061 2025-06-14T18:07:16.112574 application/rdf+xml 16388 2025-06-14T18:07:04.781651 image/jpeg 2783 2025-06-14T18:07:04.735680 image/jpeg 1133931 2025-06-14T18:07:04.216682 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia