The Water-Babies

Charles Kingsley

⏱ 7 minFamily classic

Poor Tom, an ill-used chimney-sweep, tumbles into a stream and is changed into a tiny water-baby, beginning a strange, tender education among the fairies of river and sea. Kingsley's beloved Victorian fairy tale.

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