The water babies; a fairy tale for a land baby,

Date:

1900.

Author:

Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH K54 W29 1900 LOCAL

Publisher:

Ginn

Abstract:

A Victorian tale in which Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, is stolen by fairies and turned into a water-baby.

Physical Description:

vii, 192 pages frontispiece, plates 18 cm

Notes:

Includes publisher's advertisements. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

1900 Ginn imprint, c 1884, inscribed 1905; Home and School Library; cover title is Kingsley's Water Babies, running head is The Water-Babies; front cover titles and decorations printed in black on brown cloth

Subjects:

Chimney sweeps Juvenile fiction, Fairies Juvenile fiction, Fantasy fiction Juvenile fiction, Chimney sweeps, Fairies, and Fantasy fiction

Genres/Forms:

Fiction and Juvenile works