📖 The Water Babies

HarperCollins is proud to present it's new range of best-loved, essential classics. "In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water baby. A water baby? You never heard of a water baby. Perhaps not. That is the very reason why this story was written". Poor Tom is an orphan, employed by the underhand Grimes as a chimney sweep. While cleaning a chimney one day, Tom becomes lost and appears in Ellie's bedroom. She mistakes him for a thief and he flees in fright, down to the edge of a stream where he falls asleep. In his dreamlike world, he becomes a water baby, swimming with the other water babies and discovering an aquatic playground full of strange and wonderful characters.