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Priory Classics by Charles Kingsley
$10.00 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Priory classics - series two
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
$10.95 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Puffin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: From 2 to 12
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. It is a voyage of ...Show more
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
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The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley
$34.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
The Water-Babies (1863) is one of the strangest and most powerful children's books ever published. Written by an Anglican clergyman with an insatiable love of science, the story combines an uplifting moral about redemption with a crash course in evolutionary theory, and has an imaginative exuberance equ ...Show more
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
$17.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
The Water Babiesby Charles KingsleySir John sent, far and wide, to find Tom's father and mother: but he might have looked till Doomsday for them, for one was dead, and the other was in Botany Bay. And the little girl would not play with her dolls for a whole week, and never forgot poor little Tom. And s ...Show more
The Water-Babies (150th Anniversary Gift Edition) by Charles Kingsley
$27.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
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 exciteme ...Show more
The Water Babies : A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by Charles Kingsley
$12.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Penguin Classics
"The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby" is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for "Macmillan's Magazine", it was first published in its entirety in 1863. The book was extremely popular during its day, and was a mainstay of children's literature ...Show more
The Water-babies by Charles Kingsley
$21.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'this is all a fairy tale...and, therefore, you are not to believe a word of it, even if it is true' The Water-Babies (1863) is one of the strangest and most powerful children's stories ever written. In describing the underwater adventures of Tom, a chimney-sweeper's boy who is transformed into a wate ...Show more
Water Babies by KINGSLEY CHARLES
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Water Babies Ser.
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. The book was extremely popular in England during its day, and was a mainstay of British childr ...Show more
Water Babies (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Charles Kingsley
$7.99 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics | Reading Level: 2-12
Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bo ...Show more
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