From the dust jacket:
Charles Kingsley's classic tale of the chimney-sweep boy who becomes a water baby has been enjoyed by generations of children.
When Tom gets lost in the chimneys of a great house, and finds himself in Ellie's room, he is chased away as a thief. He runs until, exhausted, he slips into a stream–but he does not drown. Instead, he is transformed into a water baby.
The world under water is strange and often dangerous. Tom has many adventures; at last, for Ellie's sake, he undertakes a perilous journey to the Other-end-of-Nowhere.
In her skillful retelling Josephine Poole has closely followed Kingsley's original, with its cast of bizarre characters, from the savage otter and the foolish lobster to the magical sisters, Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid and Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby.
Jan Ormerod's beautiful and decorative pictures reveal her delight in Charles Kingsley's underwater world, and her range of colors reflect the changing mood of the story.
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