The Kingsley, Charles 1819-1875 creator Smith, Jessie Willcox 1863-1935 text utu 2011 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Water-Babies" by Charles Kingsley is a children's novel written in 1862–1863. Young Tom, a chimney sweep, falls into a river and transforms into a "water-baby," beginning a fantastical moral education in an underwater world. Guided by mysterious fairies and reunited with Ellie, an upper-class girl, Tom embarks on adventures that teach him right from wrong. Through his journey, he must prove his moral worth and confront his cruel former master, ultimately earning redemption and a chance to return to human form. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water-Babies Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook: #36309 (Illustrated in B & W and Color) #25564 (Illustrated in Color) #1018 (Plain HTML file) Release date is 2011-06-03 Produced by Suzanne Shell, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Original publication data not identified Chimney sweeps -- Juvenile fiction Fairy tales -- England PZ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36309 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36309 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133828.0 36309