When Tom, a young chimney sweep, falls into a river and drowns, he is transformed from a twelve-year-old boy who has known nothing but brutality and poverty into a 'water-baby'. In an underwater world surrounded by fairies, insects and water nymphs, he soon discovers a new life of adventure and excitement. Gloriously illustrated with 8 colours plates from Mabel Lucie Attwell, and with a ribbon marker and a specially commissioned foreword, this beautiful hardback Macmillan Classics edition of Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies, first published in 1863 , is a truly special gift to treasure.
This is Book 11 in the Macmillan Children's Classics Series. See all Macmillan Children's Classics books here.
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The second book in a fabulous new magical, middle-grade series filled with adventure, wonder and wildness,
