THE WATER BABIES

HarperCollins is proud to present its 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.