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Ormerod, Jan, Illustrator Poole, Josephine, Reteller

The Water Babies

96 pp. | Lerner/Millbrook | January, 1998 | Library ISBN 0-7613-0411-8
(3) 4-6 In this lively but compact retelling, Poole does a judicious job of pruning Charles Kingsley's lengthy tale of an ungodly chimney sweep who learns Christian values by being transformed into a water baby. Never cloying, Ormerod's deft watercolor and pen-and-ink illustrations capture both the innocence and the danger of Kingsley's underwater world.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

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