The Water-Babies

A gorgeous, collectable, new edition of The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby. Tom, a young chimney sweep, is chased from a house then falls into a river to becomes a water-baby. He is guided back to humanity through a series of adventures, each with a moral lesson which, for the reader, explores the social attitudes of the Victorian era.

Charles Kingsley was a priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. He campaigned for workers rights and against poverty. He was a friend of Charles Darwin's ideas influenced his classic book, Water-Babies.