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96 pp.
| Lerner/Millbrook
| January, 1998
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LibraryISBN 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.