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	The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley.
		There he dies and is transformed into a "water baby", as he is told by a caddis fly — an insect that sheds its skin — and begins his moral education.
		In the accompanying illustrations by Linley Sambourne, Huxley and Owen are caricatured, studying a captured water baby.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Water-Babies (955 words)

	The Water-babies
		And he laughed the other half of the day, when he was tossing halfpennies with the other boys, or playing leap-frog over the posts, or bowling stones at the horses’ legs as they trotted by, which last was excellent fun, when there was a wall at hand behind which to hide..........
		Most readers, however, will be carried away by the fantasy and its sense of hope and possibility in life just as Queen Victoria was (she read it to her children and appointed the author canon of Westminster).
		In 1863, he wrote a story for his baby son Grenville, which was to become a long-popular children's book, The Water-Babies.
	www.luikerwaal.com /waterbabies_uk.htm (794 words)

	THE WATER BABIES
		The Water Babies will climb up on your car and reach their little pale, white, moist hands in the window and touch you on the side of the face.
		She feeds the Water Babies and takes care of them and then at night they sneak out and go to the bridge where they look for people to befriend them.
		Some people who have lived in Smyrna for years say that the old woman is a witch and the Water Babies are her children are her children but I don’t believe that.
	www.sprayberry.org /water_babies.htm (910 words)

	The Water Babies
		The Water Babies sing it well as an ensemble piece, though two individuals do stand out (for their dancing and general stage presonce) namely Izzy and Poppy.
		The Water Babies carry their lanterns on poles in both hands in a uniform manner.
		The Water Babies is a far superior show, for both the writers and actors treat the subject matter entirely seriously.
	www.qsulis.demon.co.uk /Website_Louise_Gold/The_Water_Babies_Review.htm (5623 words)

	Water-Babies, The
		Nevertheless, Manlove argues that the two writers for all their differences share a particular common bond, namely "that they chose, alone and at almost the same time in the nineteenth century, to put what they could of the divine presence in the fairy tale" (159).
		Kingsley uses the motif of water in The Water-Babies to preach the virtues of bathing and washing.
		“However, the depiction of water as a cleansing agent may also be viewed in an allegorical sense, namely as purifying morally and spiritually both the individual Tom as well as the collective society.
	www2.bc.edu /~rappleb/Kingsley-Latest/KWater-Babies.html (4343 words)

	The Water Babies - Guide to Musical Theatre
		Charles Kingsley's well-loved story of the Water Babies is enchantingly brought to life in this adaptation by Willis Hall.
		In the original professional touring production, puppets were used to represent the Water Babies and underwater creatures, but small children could be used to play these parts in, for example, schools' productions.
		Again, in the touring production, several of the roles were doubled as the cast was limited to nine actors and actresses, but of course, each role can be filled individually if numbers permit.
	www.nodanw.com /shows_w/water_babies.htm (148 words)

	lewisriver.com-- Southern Washington's North Fork Lewis River.
		EACH YEAR on the second Saturday of August, a gathering is held at the Woodland Community Center of a group called "The Water Babies," which also includes their relatives, neighbors, and friends.
		When called a "Water Baby," you have the distinction of being born in the vanished valley of the North Fork of Lewis River.
		Where the water was shallow and the current was not strong, our parents would let my older brother Mel and me take a ride in the old family rowboat.
	www.lewisriver.com /historyone.html (2503 words)

	All About Waterbirth and Water Babies: The Water Birth Website
		This pioneering site is dedicated to the belief that every mother has the right to have the birth experience she wants, and to educate expectant parents and birthcare professionals about the extraordinary value of water labor and waterbirth to everyone concerned.
		The birth of your baby is one of the most important events of your entire life.
		The information available here, along with the materials you can order, the award winning video WATER BABY: Experiences of Water Birth and a custom-created Waterbirth Resource Providers List for your area (created from a database of 1,000+ waterbirth practitioners and facilities), are all you need.
	www.waterbirthinfo.com (419 words)

	Amazon.com: The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby; Abridged (Puffin Classics): Books: Charles Kingsley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by Charles Kingsley $11.66
		And there his adventures really begin, as he investigates his new form, meets the river-folk and begins his journey to be reunited with the little girl in the white bedroom - Ellie, who has not forgotten the boy who woke her from her sleep.
		Like Barrie, Kingsley's story is chock full of allegory and moralising, namely concerned with images of baptism and rejuvenation, as seen from Tom's transformation from "dirty" (figuratively and literally) to the white form of the water baby, to the moral growth that he gains over the course of the story.
	www.amazon.com /Water-Babies-Land-Baby-Abridged-Classics/dp/0140367365 (2347 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Water Babies [1978]: Video: James Mason,Bernard Cribbins,Billie Whitelaw,Joan Greenwood,David ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Water Babies tells the story of Tom, a chimney sweep who gets framed for theft in 1850s England.
		Tom befriends the creatures he meets beneath the sea, and they accompany him on a journey to the land of Water Babies, where he intends to ask the all-powerful Cracken to help him return to the world above the water.
		I have the water babies since i was a verry little girl, and the story has always intrigued me. It's a great childrens film that i feel adults can also enjoy.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Water-Babies-James-Mason/dp/B00004CK9Z (603 words)

	The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley 3
		It was a clear still September night, and the moon shone so brightly down through the water, that he could not sleep, though he shut his eyes as tight as possible.
		But before he could make up his mind, down came the pole through the water; there was a fearful splash and struggle, and Tom saw that the poor salmon was speared right through, and was lifted out of the water.
		And always the little barnacles threw out their casting-nets and swept the water, and came in for their share of whatever there was for dinner.
	www.classicbookshelf.com /library/charles_kingsley/the_water_babies/3 (5842 words)

	The Water Babies (1978)
		Seeking to find a means of returning to the surface, he heads upstream to find the water babies, other children who have likewise been swept under.
		But there an evil shark captures the water babies and Tommy must choose whether to return to the surface or whether to relinquish the chance to do so and become the rescuer of the other babies.
		The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
	www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/waterbabies.htm (526 words)

	The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley - Palimpsest
		The Water Babies was written in 1862 and encapsulates much concern for the welfare of the poor — their education and health prospects — as well as concern for the environmental health of the natural world.
		The Water Babies and The House at Pooh Corner were always housed in a bedside drawer in the little back bedroom of my grandmother's house - can see them now.
		I have no idea of the detailed history of books written for children but The Water Babies is not simply morally instructive - it also possesses the charm HP mentions and includes modern children's fantasy staples such as chases, engaging temporary side-kicks, humorous conversations with passers-by who aid or detract from the quest in hand.
	www.palimpsest.org.uk /forum/showthread.php?t=1030 (920 words)

	- Baby swimming lessons with WATER BABIES - classes to teach your baby to swim -
		If you’ve already signed up for a course, please ensure that you’ve read everything in the ‘practicalities’ and ‘your baby's safety ’ sections before coming to your first lesson.
		Welcome to the Water Babies web site, giving you all the necessary information about our approach to teaching your baby to swim.
		You’ll find that a Water Babies course is very different to traditional swimming lessons.
	www.waterbabies.co.uk (240 words)

	The Water Babies
		As The Water Babies was presented in repertory (with: The Merchant Of Venice,
		The date of the first preview for The Water Babies, was, by coincidence, 26 years to the day since Leading Lady Louise Gold started working for The Muppets.
		“But it seems that this version shows all the necessary moments with a bit of moralising and lots of fun (especially the water babies on their scooters, which made me laugh tears, and the deliciously comic and charismatic Louise Gold doing the fairies).
	www.qsulis.demon.co.uk /Website_Louise_Gold/The_Water_Babies.htm (1721 words)

	Full text and plot summary of The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
		Full text and plot summary of The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
		Subtitled, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby and written for Kingsley’s son Grenville, The Water-Babies was an exceptionally popular fantasy serialized in Macmillan’s Magazine 1862-3 then published in 1863 with Noel Paton’s illustrations.
		It is the story of Tom, a young boy who is a chimney sweep employed by the brutal bully Mr Grimes.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/0/30/991 (346 words)

	The Water Babies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Water Babies is another classic story brought up to date in this edition by Jane Carruth for Award Publications Ltd. Anne Grahame Johnstone has produced enchanting illustrations for this book which tells of the adventures of a little chimney sweep called Tom.
		Tom, forced to clean the chimneys of a big house in the country by his cruel master Mr Grimes, loses his way and arrives in the grate of a beautiful little girl's bedroom.
		When she awakes and sees the dirty little boy she screams, causing Tom to run away and begin a series of magical adventures when he joins the water babies in the river.
	www.manoracre.com /waterb.htm (108 words)

	Toonhound - The Water-Babies (1978)
		from the property and is forced to dive into a roaring water pool in order to evade
		middle of more expected classical elements, like the water nymphs of the title.
		The water world portrayed here simply doesn't make any sense...
	www.toonhound.com /waterbabies.htm (351 words)

	Water Babies (1935) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Plot Summary: Without dialogue, "Water Babies" chronicles the activities of numerous kewpie doll-like water nymphs over the course of a single day...
		The WATER BABIES emerge from their flowery beds to spend another day frolicking with the pond creatures or romping in the forest.
		Aside from the title, there's no connection with Charles Kingsley's classic book.The babies are all naked (and apparently sexless), thus giving the Disney artists much scope for their favorite bare bottom gags.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0027183 (442 words)

	Water Babies (1863)
		Grove, or any other of the great men whom good boys are taught to respect.
		"I know there used to be children in the water, and mermaids too, and mermen.
		It hangs on the great staircase, and I have looked at it ever since I was a baby, and dreamt about it a hundred times; and it is so beautiful, that it must be true."
	aleph0.clarku.edu /huxley/comm/Books/WB.html (541 words)

	Libraria Stilus The Water Babies C Kingsley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief.
		He runs away, and, hot and bothered, he slips into a cooling stream, falls asleep, and becomes a Water Baby.
		In his new life, he meets all sorts of aquatic creatures, including an engaging old lobster, other water babies, and at last reaches St Branden's Isle where he encounters the fierce Mrs Bedonebyeasyoudid and the motherly Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby.
	www.stilus.ro /librarie/the-water-babies-p-984.html (144 words)

	Charles Kingsley's Water-Babies
		A fl 'thing' is recovered from the water, mourned over by a contrite Sir John and retinue, and buried in Vendale churchyard, where a tombstone is erected over it and regularly adorned with garlands of flowers by the schoolhouse dame until she grows too old to visit the grave.
		Kingsley's problem was, perhaps, in envisaging heaven in any more meaningful terms than those already provided by Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby's maternal embraces, or those promised by more mature fondlings.
		But whatever the reason, the ending in which he commits children to "hard work and cold water" (205) as ways of dealing with that 'fl thing'--the sinful body and the death it dies--is a let-down.
	www.victorianweb.org /vn/death/banjeree5.html (977 words)

	The Water Babies Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
		Lionel Jeffries directed Water Babies, a children's fantasy based on the story by Charles Kingsley that incorporates live-action and animation in the tradition of The Incredible Mr.
		Tom makes a run for it and leaps into a pool, where he comes across a collection of animated characters.
		While submerged he helps to rescue "water babies," children held hostage by an eel and a shark.
	www.movieweb.com /dvd/release/68/7268/features.php (189 words)

	Water-Babies, The
		Social and Political Novel ; Yeast ; Alton Locke ; Hypatia ; Two Years Ago ; The Water Babies.
		Muller, Charles H. The Water Babies : Moral Lessons for Children.” UNISA English Studies Vol.
		Stolzenback, Mary M. The Water Babies : An Appreciation,” Mythlore Vol.
	www2.bc.edu /~rappleb/kingsley/KWater-Babies.html (4737 words)

	Water Babies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Subtitled: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
		Anyway Tom is chased out of Ellie's house, falls into the river where he enters a magical underwater world and becomes a water-baby.
		Kingsley portrays the water world in vivid and exciting way.
	waltm.net /waterbab.htm (261 words)

	The Water Babies (1978) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Yes, he jumps in the water, but not because of suicide.
		He jumped because he trusted the lady in fl--she'd been appearing to him all along.
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for The Water Babies (1978)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0078477 (488 words)

	The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley
		Yet the history of the jelly-fish is quite as wonderful as that would be."Ask him if he knows about all this; and if he does not, tell him to go and look for himself; and advise him...
		That is not strange: for you know, when you came into this world, and became a land-baby, you remember nothing.
		till their brains grew big, and their bodies grew small, and they were all changed into turnips, with little but water inside; and still their foolish parents actually pick the leaves off them as fast as they grow, lest they should have anything green about them."
	www.generationterrorists.com /quotes/the_water_babies.html (5701 words)

	The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley - Penguin Group (USA)
		The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley - Penguin Group (USA)
		Tom, an ill-treated chimney-boy, jumps into a cool stream to clean the soot off himself - and becomes a water baby, cleaner and happier than he has ever been, in a fairy world under river and sea.
		Meeting beautiful and frightening creatures, getting into all sorts of mishaps, and learning some lessons along the way, Tom travels to the Other-end-of-Nowhere on an unforgettable voyage of discovery.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140367362,00.html (124 words)

	- WATER BABIES - SAFE IN THE WATER -
		Swimming from birth, without the use of floatation devices, will hopefully make your child supremely confident in water.
		Having said that, they still need very careful supervision around it – perhaps even more so as they’re often quite happy to jump in!
		Several have seen their kids decide to launch themselves unexpectedly into the pool, calmly swim to the surface and hold onto the side – much to the amazement of onlookers.
	www.waterbabies.co.uk /safe_in_the_water.php (149 words)

	Mint Outfit for the Water Babies Doll by Playmates - jk00224 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Do you need a mint, all original outfit for your Water Babies Doll from 1994 Playmates Toys?
		I do not have the Water Baby Doll.
		The outfit consists of a cute pajama, bib, diaper, washcloth, little pink blanket and the container filter to fill the water baby.
	www.rubylane.com /shops/jansplaypals/item/jk00224 (118 words)

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