\'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 water-baby after he drowns, Charles Kingsley combined comic fantasy and moral fable to extraordinary effect.
Tom\'s encounters with friendly fish, curious lobsters, and characters such as Mrs Doasyouwou. \'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 water-baby after he drowns, Charles Kingsley combined comic fantasy and moral fable to extraordinary effect
