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When Tom, an ill-treated little chimney-sweep, jumps into a clear, cool stream to clean himself something magical happens; he is turned into a tiny water baby by the fairies. He enters a strange, magical underwater world, and travels beyond the world's end to the other end-of-nowhere, getting into all sorts of scrapes and encountering creatures beautiful and frightening along the way. He also learns many important lessons - it is a voyage of discovery that Tom will never forget.

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Plunging into a land beneath the water, a young chimney-sweep discovers a wonderful and mystical world of water-babies, in a gift edition of a classic story that is complemented by twelve full-color plates.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Do NOT buy this abridged version!, Oct. 16 1999

Par	Paul B. "Critic" (Seattle, WA United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires

Kingsley's novel is brilliant--it's a fantastic and difficult read for both children and adults. But do NOT buy the abridged version (Puffin). One thing that is taken out is Kingsley's many sarcastic references to American democracy. The publishers have taken out the anti-American sentiment to sell more copies to Americans--this is, of course, a very American thing to do, and it's this sort of thing that led to Kingsley's satire in the first place. I would suggest that publishers stop mutilating books and start reading them. I certainly hope people will stop buying the abridged version.

I note, by the way, that the anti-Irish sections are left untouched.

Here are some passages--page numbers are to the excellent Oxford World's Classics version, ed. Brian Alderson (1995):

"But he [Cousin Cramchild] was raised in a country where little boys are not expected to be respectful, because all of them are as good as the President." (85)

"Being quite comfortable is a very good thing; but it does not make people good. Indeed, it sometimes makes them naughty, as it has made the people in America . . ." (115)

" But they were true republicans, those hoodies, who do every one just what he likes, and make other people do so too; so that, for any freedom of speech, thought, or action, which is allowed among them, they might as well be American citizens of the new school." (141)

"So she packs them [the sperm whales] away in a great pond by themselves at the South Pole, two hundred and sixty-three miles south-east of Mount Erebus, the great volcano in the ice; and there they butt each other with their ugly noses, day and night from year's end to year's end. And if they think that sport--why, so do their American cousins." (147)

There are others.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 A classic mid-Victorian fairy tale, Nov. 18 1998

Par	catjudd@umiami.ir.miami.edu "catjudd" (Miami, Florida) - Voir tous mes commentaires

[A warning--there is no unabridged version of "Water Babies" now in print. The Puffin notes that it is abridged, but the Wonder Book with the beautiful Wilcox-Smith illustrations does not state that it is abridged, but it is. Check university libraries for 1898 or so versions illustrated by "Linley Sambourne."] "The Water Babies" first published in 1863 is a classic mid-Victorian fairy tale that also reveals some of the preoccupations and anxieties of Victorian culture including sanitary health reform (hence the emphasis on cleanliness); Christian socialism (that is social reform based on Christian teachings); child labor and child abuse; and primary education. The dark side of Victorian culture is also revealed in this tale--especially in the original unabridged versions. Here we see a philosophy of social Darwinism that leads easily to notions of white supremacy as well as much anti-Irish sentiment--this at a time when Ireland had still not recovered from the horrific "Great Famine" of 1845-1852. There is also a sub-text of anxiety about adolescent male sexuality--of young men needing to maintain sexualy purity before marriage--again, the emphasis on Tom purifying and cleansing himself. Although written for children, it is a rather difficult text whose language does not invite the young reader in in the way that the Oz books or the Alice books do. I think its real use is as a document of mid-Victorian culture and is best read in the context of other "social problem" or "condition-of-England" novels such as Kingsley's "Alton Locke" or Dickens's "Hard Times."

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Amusing, Mai 26 2004

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Not sparkling, but cute and charming, and a good book to read aloud to the littles as long as you don't mind defining the occasional word. The one peeve I had was the annoying and persistant habit the author has of calling the the reader "My dear little man". This is especial bothersome when the person reading it is fourteen and female.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 Lesson for Life
It was whilst reading the Waterbabies to my children that it dawned on me that the lessons to be learned from Mrs Be Done By As You Did and Mrs Do As You Would Be Done By had been... Read more

Publi� le Mai 3 2004 par David

3.0�toiles sur 5 A Book of Its Time
Interesting that an original version of this book is extremely hard to come by. The abridged version, as mentioned by another reader/reviewer, omits crucial references to the... Read more

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5.0�toiles sur 5 The Water Babies
This book was a wonderful novel to read. It showed how little kids were treated durning this time period. Once the faries found Tom his life changed forever. Read more

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